SANTA CLARA — Linebacker Reuben Foster joined the 49ers in their voluntarily offseason program Thursday, some 2 1/2 months after he agreed to steer clear of it amid felony domestic-violence charges that a judge emphatically dropped on Wednesday.
Thursday marked the 49ers’ third organized team activity this week, and those sessions will continue the next two weeks before a mandatory minicamp June 12-14.
General manager John Lynch welcomed Foster’s return less than an hour after Judge Nona Klippen dropped felony domestic violence and criminal threats charges against the 24-year-old linebacker, citing a lack of evidence in the prosecutors’ case that totally unwraveled when Foster’s ex-girlfriend, Elissa Ennis, testified last week she fabricated the assault out of financial motives.