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PUTNAM County: felony sentencing scoresheets by statute
403 felony sentencing events in PUTNAM County, Florida, from public FDLE FDC Sentencing Scoresheet data, 28.8% imposed a state-prison sentence, 97% resolved by plea, and 6.7% 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 PUTNAM 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 6A | POSSESSION OF SCHEDULE II SUBSTANCE | 3 | 86 | 12.8% (7.2%) | 98.8% | 2.3% (13.3%) | 3.1 mo | 12.5 mo |
| 893.13 (6)(A) | POSS. CONTROLLED SUBST. W/O PRESCRIPTION | 3 | 20 | 10% (12.2%) | 100% | 0% (0%) | 1.5 mo | — |
| 784.021 1A | AGGRAVATED ASSAULT (DEADLY WEAPON) | 3 | 15 | 26.7% (24.3%) | 100% | 0% (0%) | 13.9 mo | — |
| 812.014 2C | GRAND THEFT | 3 | 14 | 0% (5.6%) | 100% | 0% (—) | 0 mo | — |
| 893.13(6)(A) | POSS.CONTROL.SUBS/OTHER | 3 | 13 | 7.7% (8.5%) | 92.3% | 0% (—) | 0 mo | — |
| 790.23 1A | POSSESSION OF FIREARM BY CONVICTED IN STATE FELON | 2 | 13 | 38.5% (51.1%) | 100% | 7.7% (16.7%) | 11.3 mo | — |
| 784.041 1 | FELONY BATTERY | 3 | 13 | 7.7% (27.1%) | 100% | 0% (0%) | 8.3 mo | — |
| 810.02 (4)(A) | BURGLARY OF AN UNOCCUPIED STRUCTURE | 3 | 12 | 33.3% (19%) | 100% | 8.3% (16.7%) | 14.9 mo | — |
| 810.02 3 (B) | BURGLARY OF AN UNOCCUPIED DWELLING | 2 | 10 | 80% (81.8%) | 100% | 20% (20%) | 36.6 mo | — |
| 812.019 1 | DEALING IN STOLEN PROPERTY | 2 | 10 | 50% (51.4%) | 90% | 0% (0%) | 23.3 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.
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