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Walton County: sentencing outcomes by charge
17,597 charge dispositions in Walton County, Florida, from public FDLE CJDT Clerk-of-Court data — 36.5% 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 Walton 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Driver Licenses | 4,657 | 19.9% | 37 d | 11.4% | 38.4% |
| Drug Abuse Prevention and Control | 2,691 | 49.6% | 183 d | 15.9% | 3.1% |
| State Uniform Traffic Control | 1,852 | 37.2% | 30 d | 10.1% | 5% |
| Assault; Battery; Culpable Negligence | 1,360 | 41% | 183 d | 20.4% | 13.8% |
| Theft, Robbery, and Related Crimes | 1,340 | 50.2% | 274 d | 15.5% | 6.4% |
| Burglary and Trespass | 799 | 57.8% | 183 d | 11.5% | 5.3% |
| Obstructing Justice | 752 | 42.7% | 120 d | 18.5% | 5.6% |
| Beverage Law: Enforcement | 544 | 0.9% | — | 16.9% | 80.5% |
| Motor Vehicle Licenses | 535 | 14.6% | 50 d | 29.7% | 20.9% |
| Abuse of Children | 449 | 53.7% | 5.0 yr | 8.7% | 8.7% |
| Arson and Criminal Mischief | 326 | 37.7% | 183 d | 17.2% | 9.5% |
| Weapons and Firearms | 266 | 56.4% | 1.2 yr | 11.7% | 2.6% |
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.
- 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 Walton 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.