Florida public records · 2018–2026 · Fla. Stat. § 790.23
What the public record shows for Felons and delinquents in Polk County
635 public records from Polk County were resolved between 2018 and 2026 with Fla. Stat. § 790.23 as the primary charge.
Florida Clerk of Courts data · Fla. Stat. § 900.05 · Primary charges only
Documented outcomes from past cases — not a prediction about any individual case. CaseParity is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice.
How 635 Polk County Felons and delinquents cases were sentenced
The last row is not an error and it is not hidden. In 123 of these cases the Clerk of Courts record we received did not carry a sentencing category we could classify. Probation and dismissal are two dispositions that can fall into it: Florida’s published extract does not always separate them from other unclassified outcomes.
Adjudication withheld means the court did not enter a conviction. It is a sentencing outcome recorded in the public data; it is not the same as a dismissal.
What this page does not tell you
This free page does not publish sentence length; the full report does.
It does not tell you the individual facts of any one case — charge specifics, plea posture, and criminal history all affect a real sentence and none of them are in this aggregate.
What Fla. Stat. § 790.23 covers
A single statute subsection can carry more than one degree under Florida law, so we do not assert one severity for Fla. Stat. § 790.23 as a whole. If this statute in fact spans more than one degree, the rates above may pool cases across degrees.
How Polk County compares with the rest of Florida
Polk County’s state-prison rate for this charge is 65.2%. Across the 60 Florida counties with at least 30 recorded Fla. Stat. § 790.23 cases, the median is 63.5% and the full documented range runs from 19.6% to 80.5%. Polk ranks 26th of 60 from the highest. Highlands County, in the same judicial circuit, is 60%.
Bar width = prison rate (0–100 %) · 60 Florida counties with ≥ 30 cases · 2018–2026
These are differences in the public record. They are not a ranking of courthouses, a judgment about any county, or a prediction about any individual case. Charge facts, plea posture, and case mix differ between counties and are not captured in aggregate records.
How this was measured
Source: Florida Clerk of Courts records published under Fla. Stat. § 900.05, anonymized, covering cases resolved between 2018 and 2026. Primary charges only — a case is counted once, under the charge the clerk recorded as primary.
Denominator: all 635 resolved Polk County cases with this primary charge. Percentages are shares of that number, not of convictions only.
Rate floor: we publish a percentage only where a county has at least 10 recorded cases for the charge. Below that we still publish the case count — we just do not turn it into a rate, because a percentage built on a handful of cases misleads.
The four named categories above cover 80.6% of these cases. We show the remaining 19.4% as its own row rather than leaving you to subtract. Coverage varies by charge and county across the site, and it is printed on every page.
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The statute
Read the current text of Fla. Stat. § 790.23 at flsenate.gov. Statutes are amended; check the version in effect on the offense date. Fla. Stat. § 790.23 at flsenate.gov →
Counties are listed by number of recorded cases, largest first.
Same charge, other Florida counties
Other charges in Polk County
CaseParity · Florida · Polk County · Fla. Stat. § 790.23
65.2%state-prison rate
635 public records (2018–2026) for Felons and delinquents as the primary charge in Polk County. One point in the documented range across 60 reporting Florida counties.
Source: Florida Clerk of Courts data under Fla. Stat. § 900.05 · documented outcomes from past cases, not a prediction
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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.
CaseParity is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice. Statistics are computed from anonymized public court records and describe historical patterns only. They do not predict outcomes in any individual case. Source: Florida Clerk of Courts under Fla. Stat. § 900.05. Primary charges only.