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COLUMBIA County: felony sentencing scoresheets by statute
963 felony sentencing events in COLUMBIA County, Florida, from public FDLE FDC Sentencing Scoresheet data, 34.7% imposed a state-prison sentence, 97.2% resolved by plea, and 0.2% 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 COLUMBIA 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 | 308 | 25% (8.5%) | 97.4% | 0% (0%) | 3.7 mo | 13.5 mo |
| 810.02(4) | BURGUNOCCSTRUC/CV OR ATT. | 3 | 47 | 31.9% (21.1%) | 100% | 0% (0%) | 6.8 mo | 17 mo |
| 790.23(3) | FEL/DELI W/GUN/CONC WPN/AMMO | 2 | 38 | 57.9% (43%) | 97.4% | 2.6% (4.2%) | 18.3 mo | 26.8 mo |
| 893.13(1)(A)1 | COCAINE-SALE/MANUF/DELIV. | 2 | 34 | 44.1% (32.4%) | 97.1% | 0% (0%) | 14.9 mo | 26 mo |
| 817.568(2)(A) | FRAUD USE OF PERSONAL ID | 3 | 28 | 28.6% (16.8%) | 96.4% | 0% (0%) | 5.5 mo | — |
| 812.014(3)(C) | PETIT THEFT/3RD CONVICTION | 3 | 27 | 18.5% (8.5%) | 96.3% | 0% (0%) | 2.7 mo | — |
| 812.014(2)(C)1 | GRAND THEFT $750+LT5K | 3 | 23 | 34.8% (9%) | 95.7% | 0% (0%) | 3.1 mo | — |
| 316.1935(3)(A) | FLEE LEO/NO REGARD | 2 | 21 | 57.1% (36.3%) | 95.2% | 0% (0%) | 11 mo | 43.5 mo |
| 843.01 | RESISTING OFFICER W/VIOLEN. | 3 | 20 | 35% (18.2%) | 100% | 0% (0%) | 8.6 mo | — |
| 812.019(1) | TRAFFIC IN STOLEN PROPERTY | 2 | 19 | 47.4% (26.5%) | 94.7% | 0% (0%) | 11.6 mo | — |
| 810.02(3)(A) | BURGL OCCUPIED DWELLING | 2 | 17 | 47.1% (45.5%) | 100% | 0% (0%) | 47.9 mo | — |
| 812.014(2)(C)3 | GRAND THEFT $10K L/$20K | 3 | 17 | 29.4% (12.7%) | 94.1% | 0% (0%) | 4.9 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 COLUMBIA 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.