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Uttering forged instrumentsFla. Stat. § 831.02

Criminal sentencing outcomes across 64 Florida counties, 5,334 charges recorded, 2018–2026.

What Fla. Stat. § 831.02 covers

Chapter 831 of the Florida Statutes — Forgery and Counterfeiting. 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 49 counties with enough records to publish a rate, the median is 22.3%.

CountyCharges recordedState prison, per 100 charges recorded
Alachua County16131.7%
Bay County25336.0%
Bradford County1225.0%
Broward County619.8%
Calhoun County4914.3%
Charlotte County2839.3%
Citrus County1216.7%
Collier County3116.1%
Columbia County3411.8%
Duval County1553.3%
Escambia County5294.2%
Gadsden County180.0%
Hardee County2286.4%
Hendry County6224.2%
Hernando County4862.5%
Highlands County7324.7%
Hillsborough County90819.1%
Indian River County8626.7%
Jackson County4560.0%
Jefferson County1442.9%
Lake County2718.5%
Lee County7153.5%
Leon County21921.0%
Levy County1910.5%
Manatee County4617.4%
Marion County24932.5%
Martin County4922.5%
Miami-Dade County82716.1%
Monroe County110.0%
Nassau County1010.0%
Okaloosa County11222.3%
Okeechobee County4852.1%
Orange County380.0%
Osceola County277.4%
Palm Beach County15314.4%
Pasco County4924.5%
Pinellas County2416.7%
Polk County8337.3%
Putnam County3135.5%
Santa Rosa County4045.0%
Sarasota County16625.3%
Seminole County568.9%
St. Johns County3429.4%
St. Lucie County5530.9%
Sumter County3511.4%
Taylor County1612.5%
Volusia County25826.4%
Wakulla County140.0%
Walton County319.7%

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. § 831.02 at the source →

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