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Assault or battery on persons 65 years of age or olderFla. Stat. § 784.08

Criminal sentencing outcomes across 65 Florida counties, 6,818 charges recorded, 2018–2026.

What Fla. Stat. § 784.08 covers

Chapter 784 of the Florida Statutes — Assault; Battery; Culpable Negligence. A single statute can span several offences at different degrees, and the figures on this page pool every degree. No single rate here is the rate for any one degree.

How often did this charge end in state prison, by county?

Sorted alphabetically, never worst-first. Every rate below has one denominator and it is stated in the column heading: all charges recorded, not convictions. A rate computed on convictions would be higher, and mixing the two is why the same statute can appear to have different “worst counties” on different pages. Across the 50 counties with enough records to publish a rate, the median is 20.9%.

CountyCharges recordedState prison, per 100 charges recorded
Alachua County12337.4%
Baker County2035.0%
Bay County13129.8%
Bradford County1947.4%
Broward County17118.1%
Charlotte County5710.5%
Citrus County11238.4%
Clay County7227.8%
Columbia County1723.5%
Desoto County1625.0%
Duval County27423.4%
Escambia County2215.9%
Hardee County1323.1%
Hernando County12015.8%
Highlands County4723.4%
Hillsborough County6219.7%
Holmes County1442.9%
Indian River County529.6%
Jackson County1816.7%
Jefferson County1513.3%
Lake County8510.6%
Lee County19312.4%
Leon County8714.9%
Levy County1723.5%
Manatee County12220.5%
Marion County19324.9%
Martin County4930.6%
Miami-Dade County89718.8%
Monroe County2326.1%
Nassau County2817.9%
Okaloosa County729.7%
Okeechobee County2114.3%
Orange County1697.7%
Osceola County5317.0%
Palm Beach County20621.4%
Pasco County38916.5%
Pinellas County40513.3%
Polk County18923.3%
Putnam County7520.0%
Santa Rosa County9118.7%
Sarasota County17816.3%
Seminole County10521.9%
St. Johns County8521.2%
St. Lucie County12128.9%
Sumter County11411.4%
Suwannee County1428.6%
Taylor County1323.1%
Volusia County55723.9%
Wakulla County1625.0%
Walton County293.4%

Counties with too few records to publish a sentencing rate (15)

Fewer than 10 records each. The count is published; the rate is not.

Source, window and the n≥10 floor

Florida Clerk of Courts public records, under Fla. Stat. § 900.05. Window: 2018–2026. A sentencing rate is published for a county only where that county has at least 10 records for this charge. Percentages are weighted by case count. Where the categories on a county page sum to less than 100%, the remainder is a sentence not recorded in the public extract, and that county page names it.

The statute

Read Fla. Stat. § 784.08 at the source →

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