STARKVILLE, Miss.(AP) A judge has dismissed a rape charge against a Mississippi State tennis player.
Okitbbeha (Ock-ti-be-HA) County Judge Bernard Crump dismissed the charge without prejudice Tuesday during a hearing for 20-year-old Christopher Richard Doerr.
Without prejudice means prosecutors could still file charges against the junior from London later.
County prosecutor Roy Carpenter declined comment.
Doerr was arrested Nov. 17 after the alleged sexual assault of an MSU coed during a party at an off-campus apartment complex.
His attorney, Jim Waide, says there was no evidence to support the rape charge.
Doerr is suspended from the tennis team but Waide says he plans to get a copy of the judge's order and ask that Doerr be reinstated.