Andrew Meyer will not face criminal charges if he completes 18 months of voluntary probation, the State Attorney's Office said in a news release Tuesday.
Meyer must also donate ,150 to the American Cancer Society or perform 10 hours of community service, records stated.
Meyer, a UF telecommunication senior who was Tasered during a forum with Sen. John Kerry on Sept. 17, was originally given felony and misdemeanor charges that could have meant up to five years in prison.
State Attorney Bill Cervone wrote in the release that Meyer did not pose any risk to the safety or peace of the community.
Meyer released apology letters to the UF community, the University Police Department and UF President Bernie Machen on Monday. The UF and UPD letters were mandated by the State Attorney's Office as part of Meyer's deal.
The deferred prosecution agreement, which was finished Wednesday, was not filed with the court until Tuesday so Meyer could complete these letters.
Meyer has also accepted punishment from UF for violating the Student Code of Conduct, but the details of his penalty could not be disclosed.
Meyer's attorney, Robert Griscti, said Meyer has withdrawn from classes because of the aggressive attention he's received from students and the media.
He plans to return in January, Griscti said.
"I do not believe a Taser should have been used on me," Meyer wrote on his Web site. "Tasers are not 'non-lethal.'"
However, the Police Benevolent Association, a police advocacy group that staged a news conference in front of Tigert Hall on Tuesday morning, said Tasers are widely accepted as injury-reducing devices.
UPD belongs to the group.
The group said a Wake Forest University study of 962 Taser cases found no deaths, and 99.7 percent of the Tasered individuals had no injuries or only mild injuries.
Many of the mild injuries were caused because people fell down after the shock, the study stated.
Kevin Oberlin, president of the North Central Florida chapter of the association, said he's been Tasered before and it wasn't that bad.
"For five seconds, it's really horrible, but by the seventh second, it's over," Oberlin said.
He said the organization was disappointed that UF's Committee on a Civil, Safe and Open Environment does not include any police officers.
Machen created the committee the day after Meyer's arrest to examine UF's policies on student forums and police protocol.
"You don't have a climate control study without people who understand the climate," Oberlin said.
In fact, he added, creating a committee isn't even necessary since the officers followed the law.
As for Meyer, he said he's learned a lot about expressing himself throughout the ordeal.
"I felt that being adamant and confrontational about my beliefs was the right way to effect change," Meyer wrote in a statement. "I was wrong."
Meyer wrote that his main goal is to educate people about the need for fair elections.
Meyer was attempting to ask Kerry about the 2004 election before police tried to take him outside the auditorium. In the statement, he apologized to Kerry for accosting him.
"My issues are not so important that I need to shove them in anyone's face," Meyer wrote.
