Middle District of Florida

A U.S. district court in the Eleventh Circuit, in Florida. Its figures are federal cases and are never added to Florida's.

People sentenced, FY2025: 1,528
Noncitizens, FY2025: 41%
Pretrial cases, FY2025: 1,769
Detained, FY2025: 71.7%

Federal sentences

People sentenced in this court under the federal guidelines, by federal fiscal year (October to September), counted by CrimeDB from the Sentencing Commission's records. Dashed lines mark changes in federal sentencing law.

People sentenced, FY2002 to FY2025

FY2003: PROTECT Act, April 30, 2003: appeals courts review departures from the guidelines anew, and the Commission must cut downward departures.
FY2005: United States v. Booker, January 12, 2005: the guidelines become advisory, so FY2005 holds sentences from before and after.
FY2008: Gall and Kimbrough, December 10, 2007: judges may sentence outside the range with less reason given, including over the crack to powder ratio.
FY2010: Fair Sentencing Act, August 3, 2010: crack cocaine thresholds rise and the crack to powder ratio falls from 100 to 1 to about 18 to 1.
FY2019: First Step Act, December 21, 2018: a wider safety valve, no more stacked gun counts, and the crack changes made retroactive.
FY2024: Guideline amendments of November 1, 2023: fewer criminal history points for offenses committed under supervision, and a lower range for people with none.

Sentence type and length, FY2025

Share of people sentenced
Prison only	89%1,353	1,353
Prison and alternatives	1%17	17
Probation and alternatives	2%32	32
Probation only	8%125	125
Fine only	<1%1	1

Alternatives are home detention, community confinement, or intermittent confinement. The median prison term was 46 months (mean 77) for the 1,370 sentenced to prison, 4 of them to life; life and anything over 470 months count as 470, as the Commission counts them.

Percent sentenced to prison, FY2002 to FY2025

Median prison term in months, FY2002 to FY2025

FY2018: From FY2018 the Commission counts a sentence of time served with no amount given as one day of prison; before, it left those out of the prison term. Counted that way, FY2017's national median prison term would be 24 months, not 27.

People sentenced by offense, FY2025

Share of people sentenced
Drug Trafficking	28%427	427
Immigration	24%368	368
Firearms	14%217	217
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	12%187	187
Child Pornography	5%71	71
Sex Abuse	4%66	66
Money Launder	3%41	41
Tax	2%35	35
Robbery	1%22	22
Bribery/Corruption	1%12	12
National Defense	1%11	11
Stalking/Harassing	1%11	11
Prison Offenses	1%9	9
Assault	1%8	8
Environmental	1%8	8
Administration of Justice	1%7	7
Forgery/Counter/Copyright	<1%5	5
Food and Drug	<1%4	4
Individual Rights	<1%4	4
Antitrust	<1%3	3
Burglary/Trespass	<1%3	3
Kidnapping	<1%3	3
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	<1%2	2
Other	<1%2	2
Commercialized Vice	<1%1	1
Murder	<1%1	1

All 1,528 people sentenced, by the Commission's offense type (OFFGUIDE, by the primary guideline).

People sentenced in the Middle District of Florida by offense, FY2018 to FY2025

Offense	FY2018	FY2019*	FY2020	FY2021	FY2022	FY2023	FY2024*	FY2025
Drug Trafficking	565	598	409	445	444	392	369	427
Immigration	356	415	364	145	129	187	210	368
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	232	206	148	142	146	142	150	187
Firearms	177	167	120	135	122	126	137	217
Child Pornography	40	48	32	39	28	50	71	71
Sex Abuse	31	27	28	44	37	45	35	66
Robbery	28	40	17	24	17	33	34	22
Money Launder	18	15	16	19	22	28	26	41
Tax	11	8	9	10	14	18	20	35
Forgery/Counter/Copyright	13	12	12	12	9	5	4	5
Assault	3	7	5	3	7	12	17	8
Administration of Justice	14	3	12	7	7	4	7	7
Stalking/Harassing	5	7	6	11	5	4	11	11
Bribery/Corruption	5	7	1	1	2	10	15	12
Prison Offenses	1	5	3	6	7	7	6	9
National Defense	4	7	5	6	1	6	3	11
Murder	1	2	9	3	4	9	5	1
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	13	4	5	4	2	2	2	2
Environmental	2	3	7	1	1	5	3	8
Individual Rights	2	0	2	1	5	6	3	4
Other	5	9	3	0	0	2	1	2
Arson	4	1	6	2	2	0	0	0
Food and Drug	1	0	1	1	4	2	2	4
Commercialized Vice	9	1	2	0	0	0	0	1
Burglary/Trespass	0	0	0	2	0	7	0	3
Drug Possession	1	1	0	3	1	1	0	0
Kidnapping	0	1	0	0	0	1	2	3
Extortion/Racketeering	1	0	0	0	2	0	2	0
Antitrust	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3
All offenses	1,542	1,594	1,222	1,066	1,018	1,104	1,136	1,528

By the Commission's offense type for these years (OFFGUIDE, by the primary guideline). Source: U.S. Sentencing Commission, individual offender datafiles, counted by CrimeDB.

* A change in federal sentencing law took effect in this fiscal year (listed under the timeline).

Earlier years, under the Commission's older offense types, are in the tables at the foot of the page.

People sentenced by citizenship, FY2025

Share of people sentenced
U.S. citizen	59%900	900
Not a U.S. citizen	41%628	628
Citizenship not known	0%0	0

368 of the 1,528 were sentenced for an immigration offense.

People sentenced by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025

People sentenced by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025
Hispanic, 6 placed by CrimeDB	52%797	797
Black, 5 placed by CrimeDB	25%384	384
White+MENA, 3 placed by CrimeDB	21%322	322
Asian+NHPI	1%19	19
Race unknown	<1%6	6

Race and Hispanic origin as each person told the probation officer
Race recorded without ethnicity: split by the source's own recorded Hispanic share of each race

All 1,528 people sentenced. Race and Hispanic origin as each person told the probation officer. Hispanic is of any race; the other groups are not Hispanic. White+MENA includes Middle Eastern and North African people. USSC recorded a race and no Hispanic origin for 14 people in FY2025: each keeps that race, and CrimeDB placed only their Hispanic origin, the lighter part.

People sentenced by criminal history category, FY2025

People sentenced by criminal history category, FY2025
I	57%873	873
II	13%204	204
III	12%186	186
IV	6%85	85
V	5%71	71
VI	7%102	102
Category not known	1%7	7

All 1,528 people sentenced. By the category the court found, I (least) to VI (most), from points for prior sentences under the guidelines.

Sentences against the guideline range, FY2025

Sentences against the guideline range, FY2025
Within the range	53%809	809
Above the range	5%70	70
Below the range, government-sponsored	16%249	249
Below the range, not government-sponsored	26%400	400

All 1,528 people sentenced. In the Commission's four groups. Government-sponsored: the prosecutor moved for it, for substantial assistance, early disposition, or another reason.

Source: U.S. Sentencing Commission, individual offender datafiles, counted by CrimeDB.

Pretrial release and detention

Defendants whose pretrial services case opened in the fiscal year, and the percent detained and never released before trial, as U.S. Courts prints them. Table H-14 counts every case, H-14A leaves out immigration cases, and H-14B, from FY2022, leaves out the cases U.S. Courts classes as illegal alien cases.

Percent detained, all cases (H-14), FY2006 to FY2025

Pretrial release and detention, FY2025

Which cases	Table	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
All cases	H-14	1,769	1,269	500	71.7%	28.3%
Excluding immigration cases	H-14A	1,311	815	496	62.2%	37.8%
Excluding illegal alien cases	H-14B	1,204	720	484	59.8%	40.2%

Detained: detained and never released before trial, as U.S. Courts prints it.

Source: U.S. Courts, Judicial Business Tables H-14, H-14A, and H-14B.

Every figure as a table

People sentenced in the Middle District of Florida, by fiscal year

Fiscal year	People sentenced	U.S. citizens	Noncitizens	Citizenship not known	Immigration offenses
FY2002	1,460	953	392	115	149
FY2003	1,573	982	549	42	194
FY2004	1,694	1,062	590	42	192
FY2005	1,703	908	766	29	281
FY2006	1,724	935	732	57	301
FY2007	1,604	925	666	13	279
FY2008	1,670	955	709	6	362
FY2009	1,648	940	706	2	378
FY2010	1,678	938	739	1	414
FY2011	1,529	916	611	2	376
FY2012	1,691	1,102	584	5	259
FY2013	1,545	1,042	497	6	260
FY2014	1,433	982	448	3	239
FY2015	1,384	948	432	4	194
FY2016	1,415	837	576	2	176
FY2017	1,520	882	636	2	275
FY2018	1,542	832	709	1	356
FY2019	1,594	883	706	5	415
FY2020	1,222	620	602	0	364
FY2021	1,066	659	407	0	145
FY2022	1,018	630	387	1	129
FY2023	1,104	690	413	1	187
FY2024	1,136	700	435	1	210
FY2025	1,528	900	628	0	368

Source: U.S. Sentencing Commission, individual offender datafiles, counted by CrimeDB.

Immigration offenses are the Commission's offense type for the year (OFFTYPE2 to FY2009, OFFTYPSB to FY2017, OFFGUIDE from FY2018).

Sentence type in the Middle District of Florida, by fiscal year

Fiscal year	People sentenced	Prison only	Prison and alternatives	Probation and alternatives	Probation only	Fine only	Type not known	Sentenced to prison	Life sentences
FY2002	1,460	1,231	47	86	86	9	1	88%	10
FY2003*	1,573	1,310	44	94	117	6	2	86%	12
FY2004	1,694	1,491	37	75	87	3	1	90%	7
FY2005*	1,703	1,513	34	60	88	6	2	91%	7
FY2006	1,724	1,498	42	70	112	2	0	89%	7
FY2007	1,604	1,400	35	64	100	4	1	90%	13
FY2008*	1,670	1,450	48	74	97	1	0	90%	6
FY2009	1,648	1,448	43	65	92	0	0	90%	10
FY2010*	1,678	1,463	40	67	107	1	0	90%	4
FY2011	1,529	1,319	45	62	103	0	0	89%	4
FY2012	1,691	1,458	68	65	99	1	0	90%	7
FY2013	1,545	1,308	57	48	130	2	0	88%	15
FY2014	1,433	1,199	57	53	123	1	0	88%	1
FY2015	1,384	1,143	21	71	149	0	0	84%	4
FY2016	1,415	1,197	32	56	130	0	0	87%	2
FY2017	1,520	1,353	29	37	101	0	0	91%	6
FY2018	1,542	1,347	27	47	119	2	0	89%	7
FY2019*	1,594	1,410	26	50	108	0	0	90%	5
FY2020	1,222	1,033	12	46	131	0	0	86%	9
FY2021	1,066	941	7	38	79	1	0	89%	5
FY2022	1,018	925	11	19	62	1	0	92%	4
FY2023	1,104	1,005	7	21	70	1	0	92%	9
FY2024*	1,136	1,028	7	19	81	1	0	91%	9
FY2025	1,528	1,353	17	32	125	1	0	90%	4

USSC's sentence types (SENTIMP). Alternatives are home detention, community confinement, or intermittent confinement. Sentenced to prison: prison only, or prison and alternatives, of those whose type is known.

Source: U.S. Sentencing Commission, individual offender datafiles, counted by CrimeDB.

* A change in federal sentencing law took effect in this fiscal year (listed under the timeline).

Sentence length in the Middle District of Florida, by fiscal year (months)

Fiscal year	Sentence, mean	Sentence, median	People sentenced	Prison term, mean	Prison term, median	Sentenced to prison
FY2002	67	42	1,457	76	51	1,274
FY2003*	70	46	1,571	81	57	1,348
FY2004	78	57	1,694	86	63	1,520
FY2005*	70	46	1,700	77	57	1,536
FY2006	70	46	1,724	78	60	1,530
FY2007	75	46	1,603	84	60	1,428
FY2008*	66	41	1,670	73	51	1,490
FY2009	70	42	1,648	77	56	1,480
FY2010*	66	36	1,678	74	48	1,481
FY2011	64	36	1,529	72	41	1,332
FY2012	72	42	1,691	81	57	1,498
FY2013	72	41	1,545	84	57	1,320
FY2014	61	34	1,433	71	46	1,223
FY2015	67	41	1,384	81	60	1,130
FY2016	67	46	1,415	80	60	1,183
FY2017	70	45	1,520	79	60	1,336
FY2018	68	42	1,542	76	57	1,374
FY2019*	66	36	1,594	73	46	1,436
FY2020	60	24	1,222	70	41	1,045
FY2021	79	60	1,066	88	70	948
FY2022	81	60	1,018	88	70	936
FY2023	79	51	1,104	86	60	1,012
FY2024*	78	51	1,136	85	60	1,035
FY2025	69	36	1,528	77	46	1,370

Sentence: prison and alternative confinement, with probation and fines as zero (USSC's sentence length). Prison term: prison alone, for those sentenced to prison (USSC's length of imprisonment). Life and anything over 470 months count as 470, as USSC counts them.

Source: U.S. Sentencing Commission, individual offender datafiles, counted by CrimeDB.

* A change in federal sentencing law took effect in this fiscal year (listed under the timeline).

FY2018: From FY2018 the Commission counts a sentence of time served with no amount given as one day of prison; before, it left those out of the prison term. Counted that way, FY2017's national median prison term would be 24 months, not 27.

People sentenced in the Middle District of Florida by offense, FY2002 to FY2009

Offense	FY2002	FY2003*	FY2004	FY2005*	FY2006	FY2007	FY2008*	FY2009
Drugs - Trafficking, Manufacturing, and Importing	800	809	925	878	863	779	700	672
Immigration	149	194	192	281	301	279	362	378
Fraud	174	211	194	166	174	162	196	139
Firearms	87	98	131	151	140	145	143	190
Pornography/Prostitution	30	34	31	43	47	37	66	61
Larceny	50	34	30	21	26	40	48	33
Traffic Violations and Other Offenses	22	20	21	15	21	26	31	56
Forgery/Counterfeiting	35	34	27	26	20	12	17	16
Administration of Justice	20	23	19	20	18	22	16	18
Tax Offenses	15	27	14	15	16	21	13	12
Embezzlement	13	11	22	20	16	15	16	9
Robbery	21	21	14	7	5	6	10	13
Money Laundering	10	4	9	12	20	15	11	7
Drugs - Communication Facilities	1	11	12	6	14	13	6	1
Racketeering/Extortion	9	7	7	11	4	5	2	2
Assault	7	5	7	4	5	4	5	8
Bribery	3	2	10	2	7	6	9	3
Drugs - Simple Possession	2	1	7	2	11	3	2	4
Sexual Abuse	2	3	0	2	3	4	7	7
Prison Offenses	2	4	2	6	5	1	2	1
Environmental, Game, Fish, and Wildlife Offenses	2	0	3	6	3	1	3	2
Civil Rights Offenses	0	7	1	1	0	7	0	3
Gambling/Lottery	0	0	5	5	2	0	0	0
Arson	0	5	3	0	0	0	2	1
Auto Theft	1	2	3	0	0	0	1	0
Food and Drug Offenses	0	1	2	0	2	1	0	0
Murder	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	4
Kidnapping/Hostage Taking	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	4
Antitrust Violations	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4
National Defense Offenses	0	1	0	1	1	0	0	0
Burglary/Breaking and Entering	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Offense type not known	4	4	2	0	0	0	1	0
All offenses	1,460	1,573	1,694	1,703	1,724	1,604	1,670	1,648

By the Commission's offense type for these years (OFFTYPE2). Source: U.S. Sentencing Commission, individual offender datafiles, counted by CrimeDB.

* A change in federal sentencing law took effect in this fiscal year (listed under the timeline).

People sentenced in the Middle District of Florida by offense, FY2010 to FY2017

Offense	FY2010*	FY2011	FY2012	FY2013	FY2014	FY2015	FY2016	FY2017
Drugs - Trafficking, Manufacturing, and Importing	631	510	663	563	444	421	552	568
Immigration	414	376	259	260	239	194	176	275
Fraud	188	184	231	216	227	236	187	196
Firearms	188	208	232	185	212	171	173	206
Child Pornography	66	53	82	70	80	85	73	58
Traffic Violations and Other Offenses	24	38	56	47	35	72	47	38
Larceny	16	32	35	36	59	54	31	29
Forgery/Counterfeiting	23	21	25	48	38	19	37	21
Administration of Justice	24	17	13	20	16	20	18	26
Sexual Abuse	4	11	15	21	11	35	22	29
Embezzlement	12	15	9	9	13	19	14	16
Money Laundering	12	10	13	10	12	6	18	24
Tax Offenses	14	14	20	9	14	12	10	4
Robbery	14	8	9	12	13	10	11	7
Racketeering/Extortion	4	0	5	11	3	13	10	4
Assault	9	6	4	8	4	7	4	5
Auto Theft	11	13	2	0	1	0	1	0
Bribery	2	5	3	3	2	5	2	1
Food and Drug Offenses	0	0	0	3	2	1	10	4
Environmental, Game, Fish, and Wildlife Offenses	5	3	3	2	4	2	0	0
Drugs - Communication Facilities	5	1	6	1	0	0	1	0
Drugs - Simple Possession	6	1	3	0	1	0	0	1
Murder	2	1	1	6	1	1	0	0
Civil Rights Offenses	0	1	0	1	0	0	6	3
National Defense Offenses	0	1	2	2	1	0	4	1
Prison Offenses	2	0	0	1	1	1	2	4
Gambling/Lottery	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0
Arson	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Burglary/Breaking and Entering	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
Kidnapping/Hostage Taking	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Manslaughter	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
All offenses	1,678	1,529	1,691	1,545	1,433	1,384	1,415	1,520

By the Commission's offense type for these years (OFFTYPSB). Source: U.S. Sentencing Commission, individual offender datafiles, counted by CrimeDB.

* A change in federal sentencing law took effect in this fiscal year (listed under the timeline).

People sentenced in the Middle District of Florida by offense, FY2025

Offense	People sentenced	Share
Drug Trafficking	427	28%
Immigration	368	24%
Firearms	217	14%
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	187	12%
Child Pornography	71	5%
Sex Abuse	66	4%
Money Launder	41	3%
Tax	35	2%
Robbery	22	1%
Bribery/Corruption	12	1%
National Defense	11	1%
Stalking/Harassing	11	1%
Prison Offenses	9	1%
Assault	8	1%
Environmental	8	1%
Administration of Justice	7	1%
Forgery/Counter/Copyright	5	<1%
Food and Drug	4	<1%
Individual Rights	4	<1%
Antitrust	3	<1%
Burglary/Trespass	3	<1%
Kidnapping	3	<1%
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	2	<1%
Other	2	<1%
Commercialized Vice	1	<1%
Murder	1	<1%

All 1,528 people sentenced, by the Commission's offense type (OFFGUIDE, by the primary guideline). Source: U.S. Sentencing Commission, individual offender datafiles, counted by CrimeDB.

People sentenced in the Middle District of Florida by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025

Race and Hispanic origin	People sentenced	Of which placed by CrimeDB	Share
Hispanic	797	6	52%
Black	384	5	25%
White+MENA	322	3	21%
Asian+NHPI	19	0	1%
Race unknown	6	0	<1%

All 1,528 people sentenced.

Hispanic is of any race; the other groups are not Hispanic. White+MENA includes Middle Eastern and North African people.

USSC recorded a race and no Hispanic origin for 14 people in FY2025: each keeps that race, and CrimeDB placed only their Hispanic origin, the lighter part.

Source: U.S. Sentencing Commission, individual offender datafiles, counted by CrimeDB.

Of which placed by CrimeDB: the part of each group CrimeDB placed (race recorded without ethnicity: split by the source's own recorded Hispanic share of each race); the rest of each group is as USSC recorded it.

People sentenced in the Middle District of Florida by criminal history category, FY2025

Criminal history category	People sentenced	Share
I	873	57%
II	204	13%
III	186	12%
IV	85	6%
V	71	5%
VI	102	7%
Category not known	7	1%

All 1,528 people sentenced.

The category the court found (XCRHISSR), I (least) to VI (most).

Source: U.S. Sentencing Commission, individual offender datafiles, counted by CrimeDB.

Sentences in the Middle District of Florida against the guideline range, FY2025

Against the guideline range	People sentenced	Share
Within the range	809	53%
Above the range	70	5%
Below the range, government-sponsored	249	16%
Below the range, not government-sponsored	400	26%

All 1,528 people sentenced.

The Commission's four groups (SENTRNGE collapsed as its Sourcebook does).

Source: U.S. Sentencing Commission, individual offender datafiles, counted by CrimeDB.

Pretrial release and detention in the Middle District of Florida, all cases (Table H-14)

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2006	1,788	1,095	693	61.2%	38.8%
FY2007	1,549	995	554	64.2%	35.8%
FY2008	1,847	1,156	691	62.6%	37.4%
FY2009	1,669	1,138	531	68.2%	31.8%
FY2010	1,683	1,103	580	65.5%	34.5%
FY2011	1,759	1,095	664	62.3%	37.7%
FY2012	1,587	950	637	59.9%	40.1%
FY2013	1,544	899	645	58.2%	41.8%
FY2014	1,419	789	630	55.6%	44.4%
FY2015	1,461	837	624	57.3%	42.7%
FY2016	1,374	896	478	65.2%	34.8%
FY2017	1,493	994	499	66.6%	33.4%
FY2018	1,597	1,115	482	69.8%	30.2%
FY2019	1,574	1,079	495	68.6%	31.4%
FY2020	1,264	862	402	68.2%	31.8%
FY2021	1,048	719	329	68.6%	31.4%
FY2022	1,028	665	363	64.7%	35.3%
FY2023	1,117	707	410	63.3%	36.7%
FY2024	1,458	967	491	66.3%	33.7%
FY2025	1,769	1,269	500	71.7%	28.3%

Source: U.S. Courts, Judicial Business Tables H-14, H-14A, and H-14B, as printed.

Pretrial release and detention in the Middle District of Florida, excluding immigration cases (Table H-14A)

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2006	1,564	878	686	56.1%	43.9%
FY2007	1,369	818	551	59.8%	40.2%
FY2008	1,551	918	633	59.2%	40.8%
FY2009	1,410	883	527	62.6%	37.4%
FY2010	1,323	743	580	56.2%	43.8%
FY2011	1,492	829	663	55.6%	44.4%
FY2012	1,367	751	616	54.9%	45.1%
FY2013	1,313	672	641	51.2%	48.8%
FY2014	1,229	602	627	49.0%	51.0%
FY2015	1,310	688	622	52.5%	47.5%
FY2016	1,192	715	477	60.0%	40.0%
FY2017	1,231	733	498	59.5%	40.5%
FY2018	1,260	786	474	62.4%	37.6%
FY2019	1,193	705	488	59.1%	40.9%
FY2020	982	584	398	59.5%	40.5%
FY2021	905	578	327	63.9%	36.1%
FY2022	898	540	358	60.1%	39.9%
FY2023	959	550	409	57.4%	42.6%
FY2024	1,229	743	486	60.5%	39.5%
FY2025	1,311	815	496	62.2%	37.8%

Source: U.S. Courts, Judicial Business Tables H-14, H-14A, and H-14B, as printed.

Pretrial release and detention in the Middle District of Florida, excluding illegal alien cases (Table H-14B)

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2022	843	490	353	58.1%	41.9%
FY2023	916	517	399	56.4%	43.6%
FY2024	1,157	685	472	59.2%	40.8%
FY2025	1,204	720	484	59.8%	40.2%

Source: U.S. Courts, Judicial Business Tables H-14, H-14A, and H-14B, as printed.