Unlawful use of badges or other indicia of authorityFla. Stat. § 843.085
Criminal sentencing outcomes across 21 Florida counties, 44 charges recorded, 2018–2026.
What Fla. Stat. § 843.085 covers
Chapter 843 of the Florida Statutes — Obstructing Justice. 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.
| County | Charges recorded | State prison, per 100 charges recorded |
|---|
Counties with too few records to publish a sentencing rate (21)
Fewer than 10 records each. The count is published; the rate is not.
- Bay County 3 cases
- Columbia County 1 case
- Desoto County 1 case
- Escambia County 1 case
- Hillsborough County 2 cases
- Indian River County 2 cases
- Lake County 2 cases
- Lee County 1 case
- Manatee County 1 case
- Miami-Dade County 6 cases
- Monroe County 1 case
- Okaloosa County 1 case
- Palm Beach County 5 cases
- Pasco County 1 case
- Polk County 3 cases
- Sarasota County 2 cases
- Seminole County 1 case
- St. Lucie County 2 cases
- Taylor County 1 case
- Volusia County 5 cases
- Walton County 2 cases
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
Past sentencing patterns do not predict future outcomes in any individual case. CaseParity does not recommend litigation strategy, plea decisions, sentencing positions, or appellate arguments. Sentencing outcomes reflect many factors not captured in structured public records.
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