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MANATEE County: felony sentencing scoresheets by statute
1,904 felony sentencing events in MANATEE County, Florida, from public FDLE FDC Sentencing Scoresheet data, 22.3% imposed a state-prison sentence, 91.1% resolved by plea, and 8.5% 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 MANATEE 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 | 458 | 3.7% (8.5%) | 92.6% | 5.2% (33.8%) | 4.9 mo | 31.5 mo |
| 893.13(1)(A)1 | COCAINE-SALE/MANUF/DELIV. | 2 | 161 | 34.8% (32.4%) | 94.4% | 7.5% (11.3%) | 16.9 mo | 28.9 mo |
| 812.014(1)&(2)(C)1 | GRAND THEFT THIRD DEGREE ($750-$5000) | 3 | 63 | 4.8% (7.2%) | 93.7% | 0% (0%) | 0.9 mo | — |
| 812.019(1) | TRAFFIC IN STOLEN PROPERTY | 2 | 55 | 18.2% (26.5%) | 94.5% | 12.7% (26.9%) | 14.3 mo | 30 mo |
| 812.014(1)&(3)(C) | FELONY PETIT THEFT | 3 | 47 | 10.6% (5.5%) | 95.7% | 0% (0%) | 3.1 mo | — |
| 812.014(1)&(2)(C)6 | GRAND THEFT MOTOR VEHICLE | 3 | 47 | 21.3% (17%) | 87.2% | 6.4% (23.1%) | 7.9 mo | 23.3 mo |
| 810.02(1)&(4)(A) | BURGLARY OF AN UNOCCUPIED STRUCTURE | 3 | 42 | 21.4% (21%) | 100% | 4.8% (22.2%) | 6.6 mo | — |
| 810.02(1)&(4)(B) | BURGLARY OF AN UNOCCUPIED CONVEYANCE | 3 | 40 | 27.5% (23.2%) | 95% | 7.5% (21.4%) | 11.6 mo | 20.4 mo |
| 790.01(2) | CARRYING CONCEALED FIREARM | 3 | 40 | 10% (4.4%) | 95% | 2.5% (0%) | 3.1 mo | — |
| 843.01 | RESISTING OFFICER W/VIOLEN. | 3 | 37 | 8.1% (18.2%) | 86.5% | 2.7% (10%) | 6 mo | — |
| 810.02(1)&(3)(B) | BURGLARY OF UNOCCUPIED DWELLING (UNARMED, NO ASSAULT OR BATTERY) | 2 | 33 | 45.5% (30%) | 75.8% | 27.3% (27.3%) | 57.8 mo | 64.2 mo |
| 784.021(1)(A) | AGG ASSLT-W/WPN NO INTENT TO K | 3 | 30 | 20% (22.6%) | 100% | 13.3% (22.2%) | 17.1 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 MANATEE County charge
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