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Seminole County: sentencing outcomes by charge
63,042 charge dispositions in Seminole County, Florida, from public FDLE CJDT Clerk-of-Court data — 35.7% drew a recorded jail or prison sentence. The table below breaks the county's highest-volume charge categories into incarceration rate, median confinement, adjudication-withheld rate, and diversion rate.
“Incarceration” means a sentence to county jail or state prison; the rate is the share of charges with a recorded jail or prison sentence (a lower bound, since the source confinement field is blank on 56% of charges statewide). Dispositions span 1951-12-22 to 2026-06-20; not time-normalized.
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 Seminole 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Theft, Robbery, and Related Crimes | 11,010 | 37.2% | 91 d | 21.2% | 18.4% |
| Drug Abuse Prevention and Control | 10,172 | 43.3% | 244 d | 24.9% | 3.5% |
| Driver Licenses | 9,341 | 21.8% | 26 d | 38.9% | 0.8% |
| State Uniform Traffic Control | 5,673 | 15.5% | 113 d | 38.4% | 3.8% |
| Assault; Battery; Culpable Negligence | 4,683 | 32.7% | 122 d | 24% | 17.3% |
| Burglary and Trespass | 4,466 | 64.4% | 32 d | 14.5% | 3.4% |
| Obstructing Justice | 3,943 | 45.8% | 45 d | 20.1% | 7.5% |
| Probation and Community Control | 1,865 | 0% | — | 0% | 0% |
| Weapons and Firearms | 1,271 | 45% | 2.0 yr | 23.8% | 6.5% |
| Motor Vehicle Licenses | 1,258 | 12% | 22 d | 54.6% | 0.5% |
| Arson and Criminal Mischief | 1,134 | 29.8% | 61 d | 29.7% | 13.4% |
| Fraudulent Practices | 988 | 52.4% | 1.0 yr | 22.9% | 5.6% |
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.
- “Incarceration” defined: a charge counts as incarceration only when its sentence is a sentence to county jail or state prison. The rate is the share of charges with a recorded jail or prison sentence — a lower bound, because the source confinement field is blank on 56% of charges statewide and counties populate it inconsistently. Cross-county comparison is therefore confounded by reporting completeness.
- Median confinement: median maximum confinement term, in days, among charges that resulted in a jail or prison sentence; 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 Seminole 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.