Two University of Florida students arrested earlier this year during pro-Palestinian protests on campus have accepted plea deals to misdemeanor criminal charges and will pay a small fine with no jail time.
Keely Nicole Gliwa, 23, of Gainesville and Roseanna Yashoda Bisram, 20, of Ocala pleaded no contest to a single count of resisting an officer without violence, according to court records. Under a deferred prosecution agreement, the cases against them would be dropped in six months if they are not arrested again, pay $150 in court fees and donate $150 to specific children’s charities.
Gliwa and Bisram, who had previously pleaded not guilty and turned down plea deals, did not immediately return phone messages Tuesday. They each remain suspended from enrolling at UF and banned from campus for three years.
Meanwhile, a prosecutor confirmed in court Tuesday the office extended a plea agreement to another person arrested in the protests, Jinx Rooney, 23 of Valrico, Florida. Rooney, who was not in the courtroom, has no apparent affiliation with UF. She has not accepted the plea in her misdemeanor case, and the judge on Tuesday set her next court hearing for Oct. 8.