Northern 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: 301
Noncitizens, FY2025: 23%
Pretrial cases, FY2025: 372
Detained, FY2025: 69.4%

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	90%272	272
Prison and alternatives	3%8	8
Probation and alternatives	1%2	2
Probation only	6%17	17
Fine only	1%2	2

Alternatives are home detention, community confinement, or intermittent confinement. The median prison term was 41 months (mean 69) for the 280 sentenced to prison; 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	24%72	72
Firearms	22%66	66
Immigration	19%58	58
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	10%29	29
Child Pornography	7%21	21
Money Launder	5%14	14
Sex Abuse	3%10	10
Other	2%7	7
Assault	2%6	6
Prison Offenses	2%5	5
Administration of Justice	1%2	2
Environmental	1%2	2
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	1%2	2
Robbery	1%2	2
Burglary/Trespass	<1%1	1
Individual Rights	<1%1	1
Murder	<1%1	1
Stalking/Harassing	<1%1	1
Tax	<1%1	1

All 301 people sentenced, by the Commission's offense type (OFFGUIDE, by the primary guideline).

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

Offense	FY2018	FY2019*	FY2020	FY2021	FY2022	FY2023	FY2024*	FY2025
Drug Trafficking	84	83	64	95	103	105	108	72
Firearms	62	58	38	37	24	37	33	66
Immigration	36	71	62	17	14	14	13	58
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	32	39	53	36	39	18	23	29
Sex Abuse	16	11	8	16	27	13	11	10
Child Pornography	12	5	11	14	12	14	21	21
Other	15	13	8	11	14	13	12	7
Money Launder	12	7	3	11	3	14	13	14
Drug Possession	5	4	5	4	9	6	1	0
Assault	2	2	4	6	2	3	1	6
Prison Offenses	3	0	2	1	4	2	2	5
Robbery	1	3	1	2	2	2	6	2
Tax	4	6	0	0	2	1	4	1
Administration of Justice	2	0	5	2	2	2	1	2
Forgery/Counter/Copyright	3	1	2	3	0	3	3	0
Bribery/Corruption	0	2	1	2	3	3	1	0
Commercialized Vice	0	0	6	2	1	2	1	0
Stalking/Harassing	4	0	1	0	2	1	2	1
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	2	1	1	1	2	0	1	2
Environmental	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	2
Individual Rights	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
National Defense	1	1	0	1	0	0	1	0
Arson	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	0
Burglary/Trespass	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1
Murder	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1
Extortion/Racketeering	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Food and Drug	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kidnapping	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
All offenses	300	309	275	264	266	254	260	301

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	77%232	232
Not a U.S. citizen	23%68	68
Citizenship not known	<1%1	1

58 of the 301 were sentenced for an immigration offense.

People sentenced by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025

People sentenced by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025
Black	48%145	145
White+MENA, 1 placed by CrimeDB	26%78	78
Hispanic	24%73	73
AIAN	<1%1	1
Asian+NHPI	<1%1	1
Race unknown	1%3	3

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 301 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 1 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	47%141	141
II	14%41	41
III	14%41	41
IV	7%21	21
V	6%19	19
VI	12%37	37
Category not known	<1%1	1

All 301 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	47%142	142
Above the range	6%17	17
Below the range, government-sponsored	18%54	54
Below the range, not government-sponsored	29%87	87
Not known or not comparable	<1%1	1

All 301 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	372	258	114	69.4%	30.6%
Excluding immigration cases	H-14A	300	187	113	62.3%	37.7%
Excluding illegal alien cases	H-14B	279	166	113	59.5%	40.5%

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 Northern District of Florida, by fiscal year

Fiscal year	People sentenced	U.S. citizens	Noncitizens	Citizenship not known	Immigration offenses
FY2002	335	298	32	5	4
FY2003	381	339	33	9	8
FY2004	455	399	44	12	9
FY2005	336	296	35	5	13
FY2006	429	352	68	9	44
FY2007	441	334	94	13	80
FY2008	351	280	62	9	41
FY2009	406	323	68	15	34
FY2010	396	312	76	8	45
FY2011	374	311	59	4	34
FY2012	358	288	54	16	24
FY2013	357	295	46	16	27
FY2014	324	306	18	0	14
FY2015	255	235	19	1	11
FY2016	262	233	27	2	11
FY2017	277	241	33	3	23
FY2018	300	251	47	2	36
FY2019	309	230	77	2	71
FY2020	275	209	66	0	62
FY2021	264	238	26	0	17
FY2022	266	241	20	5	14
FY2023	254	231	22	1	14
FY2024	260	232	28	0	13
FY2025	301	232	68	1	58

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 Northern 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	335	303	7	6	15	0	4	94%	10
FY2003*	381	306	9	14	45	4	3	83%	12
FY2004	455	374	10	10	55	4	2	85%	16
FY2005*	336	293	7	11	24	1	0	89%	16
FY2006	429	378	15	14	20	1	1	92%	20
FY2007	441	375	7	15	44	0	0	87%	19
FY2008*	351	289	10	10	41	1	0	85%	8
FY2009	406	329	17	9	50	1	0	85%	20
FY2010*	396	305	20	20	51	0	0	82%	7
FY2011	374	282	13	17	59	3	0	79%	6
FY2012	358	265	18	15	59	1	0	79%	6
FY2013	357	289	12	13	41	2	0	84%	3
FY2014	324	264	14	13	31	2	0	86%	2
FY2015	255	204	8	6	31	6	0	83%	1
FY2016	262	203	10	13	32	4	0	81%	0
FY2017	277	223	8	7	29	10	0	83%	0
FY2018	300	245	14	6	32	3	0	86%	0
FY2019*	309	271	11	2	22	3	0	91%	0
FY2020	275	229	3	9	34	0	0	84%	1
FY2021	264	227	11	2	21	3	0	90%	1
FY2022	266	233	7	3	22	1	0	90%	0
FY2023	254	220	9	4	21	0	0	90%	2
FY2024*	260	234	8	2	16	0	0	93%	1
FY2025	301	272	8	2	17	2	0	93%	0

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 Northern 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	108	64	331	116	72	310
FY2003*	91	48	379	109	60	315
FY2004	103	60	453	121	82	384
FY2005*	104	60	336	117	76	300
FY2006	105	55	429	114	70	393
FY2007	96	51	441	111	63	379
FY2008*	89	42	351	104	60	299
FY2009	94	43	406	109	59	346
FY2010*	71	30	396	85	51	325
FY2011	68	27	374	87	46	293
FY2012	69	30	358	88	51	279
FY2013	77	43	357	91	60	300
FY2014	62	36	324	72	48	278
FY2015	65	36	255	79	56	208
FY2016	56	35	262	68	48	212
FY2017	64	32	277	78	48	227
FY2018	61	31	300	70	42	259
FY2019*	45	24	309	49	29	282
FY2020	49	24	275	58	36	232
FY2021	79	40	264	87	48	238
FY2022	83	48	266	92	60	240
FY2023	88	60	254	98	60	229
FY2024*	91	60	260	98	72	242
FY2025	64	36	301	69	41	280

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 Northern District of Florida by offense, FY2002 to FY2009

Offense	FY2002	FY2003*	FY2004	FY2005*	FY2006	FY2007	FY2008*	FY2009
Drugs - Trafficking, Manufacturing, and Importing	193	191	245	155	219	181	151	150
Firearms	50	51	71	45	64	45	41	49
Immigration	4	8	9	13	44	80	41	34
Fraud	23	19	20	35	32	27	28	37
Traffic Violations and Other Offenses	6	21	16	14	21	36	31	53
Larceny	7	15	30	12	11	15	14	8
Drugs - Simple Possession	0	16	19	11	7	10	5	6
Pornography/Prostitution	0	7	6	3	5	10	8	26
Robbery	8	6	8	8	5	13	4	6
Money Laundering	5	14	4	4	4	2	1	11
Prison Offenses	13	3	5	9	3	1	3	5
Administration of Justice	6	7	6	6	2	2	7	2
Assault	1	4	5	7	2	2	5	5
Forgery/Counterfeiting	4	4	2	3	0	4	3	3
Embezzlement	6	3	3	2	2	0	0	5
Sexual Abuse	3	2	1	3	3	3	2	4
Tax Offenses	1	2	1	2	2	3	0	0
Bribery	0	0	1	1	0	4	1	0
Racketeering/Extortion	0	1	1	2	2	0	0	0
Civil Rights Offenses	2	0	0	0	0	2	0	1
Auto Theft	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	0
Burglary/Breaking and Entering	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
Environmental, Game, Fish, and Wildlife Offenses	0	1	0	0	0	1	1	0
Kidnapping/Hostage Taking	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0
Murder	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0
National Defense Offenses	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
Arson	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
Drugs - Communication Facilities	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Offense type not known	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	0
All offenses	335	381	455	336	429	441	351	406

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 Northern District of Florida by offense, FY2010 to FY2017

Offense	FY2010*	FY2011	FY2012	FY2013	FY2014	FY2015	FY2016	FY2017
Drugs - Trafficking, Manufacturing, and Importing	129	131	116	113	92	57	62	83
Firearms	49	56	57	55	59	59	48	50
Fraud	45	32	66	68	79	51	51	30
Traffic Violations and Other Offenses	49	45	37	22	16	26	36	32
Immigration	45	34	24	27	14	11	11	23
Child Pornography	20	16	9	14	17	13	13	20
Larceny	15	14	22	15	15	5	9	7
Administration of Justice	4	9	6	13	4	5	6	3
Sexual Abuse	2	3	5	9	7	2	10	8
Drugs - Simple Possession	6	7	7	3	6	4	0	7
Assault	5	4	0	2	1	4	5	5
Embezzlement	6	7	1	3	2	3	1	3
Forgery/Counterfeiting	4	1	4	1	5	3	1	0
Tax Offenses	1	2	2	3	4	3	1	3
Money Laundering	5	3	0	3	2	1	1	0
Bribery	8	1	1	2	1	0	1	0
Prison Offenses	0	4	1	2	0	3	0	1
Robbery	1	2	0	0	0	2	0	0
Arson	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	1
Racketeering/Extortion	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	1
Burglary/Breaking and Entering	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0
Environmental, Game, Fish, and Wildlife Offenses	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0
Kidnapping/Hostage Taking	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0
Civil Rights Offenses	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Drugs - Communication Facilities	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Murder	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
National Defense Offenses	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
All offenses	396	374	358	357	324	255	262	277

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 Northern District of Florida by offense, FY2025

Offense	People sentenced	Share
Drug Trafficking	72	24%
Firearms	66	22%
Immigration	58	19%
Fraud/Theft/Embezzlement	29	10%
Child Pornography	21	7%
Money Launder	14	5%
Sex Abuse	10	3%
Other	7	2%
Assault	6	2%
Prison Offenses	5	2%
Administration of Justice	2	1%
Environmental	2	1%
Obscenity/Other Sex Offenses	2	1%
Robbery	2	1%
Burglary/Trespass	1	<1%
Individual Rights	1	<1%
Murder	1	<1%
Stalking/Harassing	1	<1%
Tax	1	<1%

All 301 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 Northern District of Florida by race and Hispanic origin, FY2025

Race and Hispanic origin	People sentenced	Of which placed by CrimeDB	Share
Black	145	0	48%
White+MENA	78	1	26%
Hispanic	73	0	24%
AIAN	1	0	<1%
Asian+NHPI	1	0	<1%
Race unknown	3	0	1%

All 301 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 1 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 Northern District of Florida by criminal history category, FY2025

Criminal history category	People sentenced	Share
I	141	47%
II	41	14%
III	41	14%
IV	21	7%
V	19	6%
VI	37	12%
Category not known	1	<1%

All 301 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 Northern District of Florida against the guideline range, FY2025

Against the guideline range	People sentenced	Share
Within the range	142	47%
Above the range	17	6%
Below the range, government-sponsored	54	18%
Below the range, not government-sponsored	87	29%
Not known or not comparable	1	<1%

All 301 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 Northern District of Florida, all cases (Table H-14)

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2006	420	262	158	62.4%	37.6%
FY2007	393	253	140	64.4%	35.6%
FY2008	359	235	124	65.5%	34.5%
FY2009	312	163	149	52.2%	47.8%
FY2010	372	201	171	54.0%	46.0%
FY2011	325	173	152	53.2%	46.8%
FY2012	320	166	154	51.9%	48.1%
FY2013	308	144	164	46.8%	53.2%
FY2014	260	108	152	41.5%	58.5%
FY2015	253	117	136	46.2%	53.8%
FY2016	225	121	104	53.8%	46.2%
FY2017	303	145	158	47.9%	52.1%
FY2018	309	147	162	47.6%	52.4%
FY2019	436	249	187	57.1%	42.9%
FY2020	354	154	200	43.5%	56.5%
FY2021	307	150	157	48.9%	51.1%
FY2022	304	126	178	41.4%	58.6%
FY2023	293	135	158	46.1%	53.9%
FY2024	284	156	128	54.9%	45.1%
FY2025	372	258	114	69.4%	30.6%

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

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

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2006	407	249	158	61.2%	38.8%
FY2007	351	211	140	60.1%	39.9%
FY2008	346	222	124	64.2%	35.8%
FY2009	272	128	144	47.1%	52.9%
FY2010	342	174	168	50.9%	49.1%
FY2011	298	150	148	50.3%	49.7%
FY2012	307	153	154	49.8%	50.2%
FY2013	298	134	164	45.0%	55.0%
FY2014	257	105	152	40.9%	59.1%
FY2015	243	108	135	44.4%	55.6%
FY2016	208	104	104	50.0%	50.0%
FY2017	285	127	158	44.6%	55.4%
FY2018	268	111	157	41.4%	58.6%
FY2019	354	168	186	47.5%	52.5%
FY2020	316	119	197	37.7%	62.3%
FY2021	297	140	157	47.1%	52.9%
FY2022	286	108	178	37.8%	62.2%
FY2023	285	127	158	44.6%	55.4%
FY2024	264	141	123	53.4%	46.6%
FY2025	300	187	113	62.3%	37.7%

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

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

Fiscal year	Cases opened	Detained	Released	Detained (%)	Released (%)
FY2022	276	101	175	36.6%	63.4%
FY2023	280	123	157	43.9%	56.1%
FY2024	260	138	122	53.1%	46.9%
FY2025	279	166	113	59.5%	40.5%

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