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Pinellas County: sentencing outcomes by charge
213,713 charge dispositions in Pinellas County, Florida, from public FDLE CJDT Clerk-of-Court data — 56.3% ended in incarceration. The table below breaks the county's highest-volume charge categories into incarceration rate, median confinement, adjudication-withheld rate, and diversion rate.
Aggregate analysis, data as of 2026-06-21. Reproducible from public records. No individual is identified; the source data has no judge identifier, so no claim is made about any individual judge.
Sentencing outcomes by charge category
The highest-volume charge categories in Pinellas County. “Median confinement (when incarcerated)” is the typical maximum term among only the charges in that category that resulted in custody — so where the incarceration rate is low, that median describes a small subset of the category's charges, not a typical outcome for the category as a whole. It reads “—” where fewer than 10 charges in that category were incarcerated, or where the category's incarceration rate is too low for the median to be representative.
| Charge category | Charges | Incarceration | Median confinement (when incarcerated) | Adj. withheld | Diversion |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drug Abuse Prevention and Control | 50,350 | 70.9% | 180 d | 18.2% | 3.7% |
| Driver Licenses | 29,694 | 36.4% | 30 d | 26% | 0.1% |
| State Uniform Traffic Control | 29,611 | 39.5% | 60 d | 9.4% | 0% |
| Burglary and Trespass | 20,024 | 58.9% | 30 d | 6.9% | 0.9% |
| Theft, Robbery, and Related Crimes | 18,696 | 65.6% | 120 d | 13.6% | 4.5% |
| Assault; Battery; Culpable Negligence | 15,856 | 54.8% | 150 d | 17.8% | 13.8% |
| Obstructing Justice | 10,500 | 63.5% | 62 d | 14.5% | 3.3% |
| Marriage; Domestic Violence | 4,684 | 80.4% | 155 d | 8.5% | 2.3% |
| Motor Vehicle Licenses | 3,322 | 28.3% | 30 d | 31.4% | 0% |
| Weapons and Firearms | 3,047 | 69.9% | 1.5 yr | 14.8% | 4.3% |
| Miscellaneous Crimes | 2,969 | 42.3% | 15 d | 27.4% | 1.5% |
| Abuse of Children | 2,921 | 67.8% | 3.3 yr | 7.6% | 2.2% |
Methodology & limitations
- Source: public Florida FDLE Criminal Justice Data Transparency (CJDT) Clerk-of-Court case data, grouped by county and FDLE statute-chapter grouping. Snapshot: 2026-06-21. Every figure is reproducible from a published script against the source data.
- Median confinement: median maximum confinement term, in days, among charges that resulted in custody; reported only where at least 10 such charges exist. Charge categories with fewer than 10 charges overall are omitted.
- No judge dimension: the source data contains no judge identifier. Nothing here describes how any individual judge sentences.
- What the data does NOT show: these figures describe recorded dispositions and do not control for criminal history, offense severity within a chapter, plea posture, or case facts. A category rate is a baseline, not a prediction for any specific case. This page reports aggregates only and identifies no individual.
Comparables for a specific Pinellas County charge
BenchRecon's Sentencing Comparables return the outcome distribution for a specific charge in a specific Florida county, with every figure cited to the underlying public record.