Pick an offense above to see how Harris County cases for that charge were resolved — dismissal and conviction rates, sentence lengths, and how outcomes vary by court.
How to read this
Each figure counts cases (one per cause number, attributed to the most serious charge). Percentages always show the underlying number of cases (N ); when N is small the figure is flagged — a small sample can be misleading and is shown only for completeness. Sentence length is reported as the median with the 25th–75th percentile range, which is more representative than an average because a few unusually long sentences do not distort it.
Courts are identified by number . A note gives the current judge and when they took the bench; outcomes from earlier years were decided by prior judges, so a long time-range spans multiple judges. Use the “Since year” filter to narrow to a recent period.
Cases are organized by the charged offense. When a charge is reduced through a plea bargain, the original charge is recorded as dismissed , and the conviction is recorded under the lesser offense the defendant actually pleaded to. A low conviction rate on a serious charge therefore usually reflects charges being reduced, not defendants going free — the data follows charges, and does not yet link the separate charges of a single case. (Where the District Clerk has recorded the same offense under different code numbers over the years, those records are combined here.)
Expunged cases are missing, which lowers the dismissal and acquittal rates. When a Texas case is expunged, the District Clerk removes it from the public datasets this tool is built from, so it is counted nowhere here. Expunction is available almost exclusively for cases that ended without a conviction (acquittals, dismissals, and no-bills); those favorable outcomes are erased from the record while convictions remain. The share of cases shown as dismissed or acquitted is therefore understated, and the conviction share is correspondingly overstated.
These are historical patterns, not predictions, and they do not control for facts, criminal history, or plea posture. Data is refreshed weekly from the District Clerk’s public datasets. Provided free as a public resource by Bennett & Bennett.