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SANTA CLARA — Linebacker Reuben Foster understandably let a smile slip from his face and he gave a modest thumbs up Wednesday afternoon as he breezed out of the Santa Clara County Hall of Justice.
Foster’s life, and his 49ers career, can resume without the heavy burden of a domestic-violence charge, which Judge Nona Klippen dropped six days after preliminary-hearing testimony in which Foster’s accuser confessed she lied about an assault in a extortion attempt.