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SARASOTA County: felony sentencing scoresheets by statute
2,445 felony sentencing events in SARASOTA County, Florida, from public FDLE FDC Sentencing Scoresheet data, 16% imposed a state-prison sentence, 90% resolved by plea, and 8.3% 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 SARASOTA 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 | 757 | 3.8% (8.5%) | 89.7% | 5.7% (26.1%) | 5.6 mo | 16.1 mo |
| 893.13(1)(A)1 | COCAINE-SALE/MANUF/DELIV. | 2 | 116 | 25% (32.4%) | 93.1% | 13.8% (22.9%) | 15.3 mo | 24 mo |
| 812.014(1)&(2)(C)1 | GRAND THEFT THIRD DEGREE ($750-$5000) | 3 | 88 | 9.1% (7.2%) | 93.2% | 6.8% (35.7%) | 4.2 mo | — |
| 812.014(1)&(3)(C) | FELONY PETIT THEFT | 3 | 62 | 1.6% (5.5%) | 91.9% | 1.6% (12.5%) | 2.8 mo | — |
| 812.019(1) | TRAFFIC IN STOLEN PROPERTY | 2 | 62 | 17.7% (26.5%) | 88.7% | 9.7% (13.2%) | 18.7 mo | 24 mo |
| 810.02(1)&(4)(A) | BURGLARY OF AN UNOCCUPIED STRUCTURE | 3 | 58 | 20.7% (21%) | 94.8% | 6.9% (16%) | 13.1 mo | 45.1 mo |
| 817.568(2)(A) | FRAUD USE OF PERSONAL ID | 3 | 50 | 4% (16.8%) | 90% | 16% (33.3%) | 17.1 mo | — |
| 812.014(1)&(2)(C)6 | GRAND THEFT MOTOR VEHICLE | 3 | 47 | 12.8% (17%) | 93.6% | 10.6% (31.3%) | 7.8 mo | — |
| 810.02(1)&(3)(B) | BURGLARY OF UNOCCUPIED DWELLING (UNARMED, NO ASSAULT OR BATTERY) | 2 | 47 | 19.1% (30%) | 89.4% | 21.3% (21.3%) | 48.3 mo | — |
| 810.02(1)&(4)(B) | BURGLARY OF AN UNOCCUPIED CONVEYANCE | 3 | 42 | 19% (23.2%) | 92.9% | 9.5% (16%) | 15.9 mo | — |
| 893.13(1)(C)1 | SELL/ETC.COC/HER.1000FT SCH | 1 | 34 | 61.8% (62.6%) | 97.1% | 26.5% (30%) | 49.6 mo | 39.1 mo |
| 843.01 | RESISTING OFFICER W/VIOLEN. | 3 | 32 | 12.5% (18.2%) | 90.6% | 15.6% (33.3%) | 11.6 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 SARASOTA County charge
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