The 22-year-old Phi Kappa Tau president was charged even though he was not in the room at a party where Gary DeVercelly Jr. drank two-thirds of a bottle of Vodka.
DeVercelly, an 18-year-old freshman from Long Beach, Calif., was a pledge at Phi Kappa Tau when he attended a party there on March 28, 2007, and drank most of a bottle of vodka. He had a blood-alcohol level of 0.426 percent, or more than five times New Jersey's legal limit for driving, when he was pronounced dead March 30 at a Trenton hospital, authorities have said.
Two university administrators were also indicted in the case - the charges were eventually dropped against the officials at the private central New Jersey college.
Earlier this year, Torney agreed to pay $150,000 as part of a legal settlement with DeVercelly's family.
The other students in the case pleaded guilty and entered a pretrial intervention program that could keep their records clean.
