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BREVARD County: felony sentencing scoresheets by statute
3,602 felony sentencing events in BREVARD County, Florida, from public FDLE FDC Sentencing Scoresheet data, 18.3% imposed a state-prison sentence, 92.9% resolved by plea, and 8.7% 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 BREVARD 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 | 894 | 6.9% (8.5%) | 96.5% | 8.3% (27%) | 7 mo | — |
| 893.13(1)(A)1 | COCAINE-SALE/MANUF/DELIV. | 2 | 192 | 32.8% (32.4%) | 94.8% | 14.1% (21.3%) | 18.4 mo | 24 mo |
| 810.02(4) | BURGUNOCCSTRUC/CV OR ATT. | 3 | 178 | 15.7% (21.1%) | 94.4% | 7.9% (21.5%) | 9.4 mo | — |
| 812.019(1) | TRAFFIC IN STOLEN PROPERTY | 2 | 141 | 24.8% (26.5%) | 92.9% | 11.3% (16.5%) | 20 mo | — |
| 843.01 | RESISTING OFFICER W/VIOLEN. | 3 | 104 | 12.5% (18.2%) | 96.2% | 10.6% (23.9%) | 9.3 mo | — |
| 812.014(2)(C)1 | GRAND THEFT $750+LT5K | 3 | 94 | 4.3% (9%) | 95.7% | 6.4% (42.9%) | 3.8 mo | — |
| 812.014(2)(C)6 | GRAND THEFT MOTOR VEHICLE | 3 | 79 | 12.7% (18%) | 98.7% | 12.7% (34.5%) | 8.9 mo | — |
| 784.07(2)(B) | BATT.LEO/FIRFGT/EMS/ETC. | 3 | 76 | 13.2% (13.6%) | 96.1% | 3.9% (11.5%) | 8.5 mo | — |
| 812.014(3)(C) | PETIT THEFT/3RD CONVICTION | 3 | 75 | 8% (8.5%) | 96% | 1.3% (7.7%) | 3.8 mo | — |
| 790.23(3) | FEL/DELI W/GUN/CONC WPN/AMMO | 2 | 72 | 37.5% (43%) | 86.1% | 9.7% (14.9%) | 17.6 mo | — |
| 790.01(2) | CARRYING CONCEALED FIREARM | 3 | 63 | 7.9% (4.4%) | 96.8% | 4.8% (42.9%) | 2.5 mo | — |
| 322.34(2)(C) | FELONY DWLSR | 3 | 63 | 4.8% (6%) | 98.4% | 3.2% (25%) | 3.3 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 BREVARD County charge
BenchRecon's Florida Sentencing Comparables return the outcome distribution for a specific charge in a specific Florida county, with every figure cited to the underlying public record.