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ST. JOHNS County: felony sentencing scoresheets by statute
898 felony sentencing events in ST. JOHNS County, Florida, from public FDLE FDC Sentencing Scoresheet data, 21.3% imposed a state-prison sentence, 96.1% resolved by plea, and 3.7% 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 ST. JOHNS 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 | 261 | 5.4% (7.2%) | 98.5% | 1.9% (23.8%) | 2 mo | 16 mo |
| 812.014 (2)(C)6 | GRAND THEFT (MOTOR VEHICLE) | 3 | 43 | 14% (15.7%) | 93% | 7% (25%) | 5.9 mo | — |
| 893.13(6)(A) | POSS.CONTROL.SUBS/OTHER | 3 | 33 | 9.1% (8.5%) | 97% | 6.1% (33.3%) | 4.6 mo | — |
| 812.014 2C | GRAND THEFT | 3 | 32 | 0% (5.6%) | 93.8% | 3.1% (25%) | 2.1 mo | — |
| 810.02 (4)(A) | BURGLARY OF AN UNOCCUPIED STRUCTURE | 3 | 24 | 16.7% (19%) | 87.5% | 4.2% (33.3%) | 2.3 mo | — |
| 322.34 5 | DRIVING WHILE LICENSE REVOKED (HABITUAL) | 3 | 24 | 0% (5.7%) | 100% | 0% (0%) | 0.8 mo | — |
| 784.021 1A | AGGRAVATED ASSAULT (DEADLY WEAPON) | 3 | 24 | 20.8% (24.3%) | 91.7% | 8.3% (16.7%) | 12.3 mo | — |
| 893.13 1A1 | POSSESSION OF COCAINE WITH INTENT TO SELL | 2 | 22 | 54.5% (42.6%) | 95.5% | 0% (0%) | 10 mo | 24 mo |
| 810.02 (4)(B) | BURGLARY OF AN UNOCCUPIED CONVEYANCE | 3 | 20 | 25% (31.3%) | 95% | 10% (40%) | 4.8 mo | — |
| 843.01 | RESISTING OFFICER W/VIOLEN. | 3 | 19 | 26.3% (18.2%) | 100% | 5.3% (14.3%) | 10.4 mo | — |
| 893.13 (6)(A) | POSS. CONTROLLED SUBST. W/O PRESCRIPTION | 3 | 17 | 11.8% (12.2%) | 100% | 5.9% (25%) | 7.1 mo | — |
| 784.03 1 2 | FELONY BATTERY (1 PRIOR) | 3 | 16 | 12.5% (13.5%) | 100% | 6.3% (25%) | 5.8 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 ST. JOHNS County charge
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