The IU student arrested for biting an officer during the April arrests in Dunn Meadow will not face a battery charge.
James Jones, 21, entered a pretrial diversion agreement with Monroe County June 20, almost two months after his arrest.
As part of the agreement, he must not be charged criminally during the next year.
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Jones was arrested April 25 after biting a state trooper on the wrist during protests at IU's Dunn Meadow, according to a court document.
An Indiana State Police sergeant said he heard Jones say he bit the trooper because the trooper’s hand was on Jones’s face.
Jones was taken to the Gladstein Fieldhouse along with 33 others to be processed that day, before being booked at the Monroe County Jail. He later posted bond and was released.
Jones was one of more than 55 people arrested over two days of protest at IU. His was the only formal charge, and the only arrest for a felony.
Many were arrested on preliminary charges of misdemeanor criminal trespass, citing a last-minute change in IU’s assembly policy that bans unapproved tents and structures from campus. Those charges were dropped May 31.
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No pending litigation remains from the protest.
Monday marks the 75th day of the Dunn Meadow encampment.
