Judge David Jordon ruled Friday that the case will move forward to the Ingham County Circuit Court after the preliminary examination concluded Friday at East Lansing’s 54-B District Court.

Wasielewski and three other MSU students — economics freshman Darby Dudley, premedical freshman Olivia Hudson and communicative sciences and disorders freshman Sasha Savage — allegedly threw a firework into MSU student Eric Flatley’s Grove Street yard as a prank. Dudley said during Wasielewski’s preliminary examination in November that she knew Flatley. She also said the three others allegedly involved did not intend to scare anyone.

After throwing the explosive, they were stopped by police, who found two other explosives in the car Dudley was driving.

Dudley, Hudson and Savage said in November they plan to plead guilty to misdemeanor charges and will face probation and community service and no jail time. The maximum sentence for Wasielewski was reduced from 20 years to 15 years because “the people are unable to sustain their burden of proof,” Assistant Ingham County Prosecutor Diane Smith said. Michigan State Police bomb technician Scott Hasse testified Friday that the explosives had been altered from their original manufactured state. He said a green cannon fuse and glue were added to the main charge of the explosive.

“That isn’t typically found in the commercially manufactured charge,” Hasse said.

Hasse said he did not know the contents of the explosives found in the car driven by Dudley, however, when he ignited the device, he did find it exploded.

Andrew Sass, an attorney for Community Resource Management Company, which owns the house where the firework was tossed, testified that there was no damage to the property resulting from the firework. Sass said none of the four individuals being charged were given permission to ignite a firework on the property, but said he had not spoken with any of the tenants in the house.

Wasielewski’s attorney, Mike Nichols, said his client was “along for the ride” and the intent of the prank was not to scare or intimidate anyone. Smith said Wasielewski knew the act was illegal and was aware of the events that were to take place.

“They knew it was illegal, because they covered up the license plate and (Wasielewski) participated in that because he removed it after the fact,” Smith said.

Jordon said Wasielewski’s alleged involvement was enough to bind him over to circuit court with the charges.

Nichols said his client is innocent and the testimony of the other three alledgedly involved in the prank is proof of his innocence.

“The testimony is very clear that this young man was along for the ride and didn’t play any part in planning this thing, didn’t play any part in carrying it out,” Nichols said.