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ALACHUA County: felony sentencing scoresheets by statute
1,065 felony sentencing events in ALACHUA County, Florida, from public FDLE FDC Sentencing Scoresheet data, 33.4% imposed a state-prison sentence, 96% resolved by plea, and 0.4% were flagged as a mitigated (downward) departure below the guideline floor. The table below breaks the county's highest-volume primary-offense statutes down and shows the statewide rate for the same statute alongside.
“Lowest permissible sentence” is the Criminal Punishment Code guideline floor (F.S. 921.0024); a 0-month floor means the offense scored below the state-prison threshold, so a mitigated departure does not apply. The plea field is populated unevenly across counties, so a low county plea rate reflects the recorded share, not a measured trial rate. Sentence dates span 2021-07-01 to 2022-06-30.
Aggregate analysis, data fiscal year FY2021-22. Reproducible from public records. The source is de-identified (offender = system GUID) and has no judge identifier, so no claim is made about any individual defendant or judge. Past outcomes only; not a prediction for any case.
Scoresheet outcomes by primary-offense statute
The highest-volume primary-offense statutes in ALACHUA County. The “state prison” column shows the county rate with the statewide rate for the same statute in parentheses, so a local figure can be read against the state. The “mitigated departure” column shows the share of all events in the cell, then in parentheses the share among only the floor-eligibleevents (those whose guideline floor exceeds 0 months — the only events that can take a downward departure); it reads “—” in parentheses where no event in the cell scored a floor above 0. “Median prison (when imposed)” is the typical term among only the state-prison sentences in that statute and reads “—” where fewer than 10 such sentences exist.
| Statute | Offense | Deg. | Events | State prison (statewide) | Plea | Mitigated departure (floor-eligible) | Mean floor | Median prison (when imposed) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 893.13(6)(A) | POSS.CONTROL.SUBS/OTHER | 3 | 228 | 14% (8.5%) | 96.5% | 0% (0%) | 4.9 mo | 15.5 mo |
| 790.23(1)(A) | POSSESSION OF FIREARM, AMMUNITION OR ELECTRIC WEAPON BY CONVICTED FELON | 2 | 48 | 75% (66.7%) | 97.9% | 0% (0%) | 19.2 mo | 36 mo |
| 812.014(2)(C)(6) | GRAND THEFT III: MOTOR VEHICLE | 3 | 43 | 39.5% (20.4%) | 95.3% | 0% (0%) | 7.8 mo | 20.5 mo |
| 812.014(3)(C) | PETIT THEFT/3RD CONVICTION | 3 | 33 | 24.2% (8.5%) | 100% | 0% (0%) | 4.6 mo | — |
| 812.014(2)(C)(1) | GRAND THEFT III: $750-$4,999 | 3 | 33 | 15.2% (14.1%) | 100% | 0% (0%) | 3.1 mo | — |
| 784.03(2) | 2+ SIMPLE BATTERY | 3 | 33 | 12.1% (12.6%) | 97% | 0% (0%) | 2.5 mo | — |
| 784.021(1)(A) | AGG ASSLT-W/WPN NO INTENT TO K | 3 | 32 | 31.3% (22.6%) | 96.9% | 3.1% (6.3%) | 14.9 mo | — |
| 810.02(4)(A) | BURGLARY OF STRUCTURE | 3 | 29 | 37.9% (13.1%) | 96.6% | 0% (0%) | 12.6 mo | — |
| 790.01(2) | CARRYING CONCEALED FIREARM | 3 | 23 | 26.1% (4.4%) | 100% | 0% (0%) | 4.5 mo | — |
| 810.02(4)(B) | BURGLARY OF CONVEYANCE | 3 | 23 | 30.4% (13.1%) | 100% | 0% (0%) | 8 mo | — |
| 893.13(1)(A)(1) | SALE OF COCAINE | 2 | 21 | 52.4% (43.7%) | 100% | 0% (0%) | 26.1 mo | 30 mo |
| 812.019(1) | TRAFFIC IN STOLEN PROPERTY | 2 | 19 | 63.2% (26.5%) | 100% | 0% (0%) | 26 mo | 28.5 mo |
Methodology & limitations
- Source: public Florida FDLE Criminal Justice Data Transparency (CJDT) FDC Sentencing Scoresheet base file, grouped by county and primary-offense statute. Fiscal year: FY2021-22. Every figure is reproducible from a published script against the source data.
- Lowest permissible sentence (the floor): the Criminal Punishment Code minimum the scoresheet computes (F.S. 921.0024), in months. It is 0 for offenses scoring below the state-prison threshold, where a non-prison sentence is guideline-compliant and a mitigated departure does not apply.
- Mitigated departure (two denominators): the official scoresheet flag for a sentence below the lowest permissible sentence. The table's first departure figure is the share of all events in the cell — which includes floor-0 events that structurally cannot depart — so it understates the rate among cases that could. The parenthetical is the share among only the floor-eligibleevents (guideline floor > 0), which is the meaningful rate. Statewide, 40.8% of events scored a floor above 0.
- No judge dimension. The source is de-identified and contains no judge identifier. Nothing here describes how any individual judge sentences.
- What the data does NOT show: these figures describe recorded sentencing events and do not control for criminal history beyond the scoresheet, offense severity within a statute, case facts, or plea terms. A statute rate is a baseline, not a prediction for any specific case. This page reports aggregates only and identifies no individual.
Comparables for a specific ALACHUA County charge
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