The charges were dismissed with prejudice, meaning charges cannot be refiled against Ehrlick in this case. Linneweber stressed the decision was an ethical one and does not mean the evidence questioning the woman's statements is entirely credible.

Charges against a second man, 30-year-old Joseph Raymond Weinreber, were dismissed without prejudice by Judge Michael Moses on May 9. Weinreber was accused of raping the same woman inside a portable toilet near a construction site. Linneweber said prosecutors have not ruled out refiling charges against Weinreber in the future.

Ehrlick was held at Yellowstone County Detention Facility after his 2014 arrest. He said he was attacked three times in jail by other inmates and still has scars on his head.

"I was stressed out everyday and picked on," Ehrlick said after a May hearing.

Since his release, Ehrlick has been staying with his mother.

During Ehrlick's October trial, the woman said she'd known Ehrlick since she was in the third grade and the two had been dating. The woman said Ehrlick had raped her in her apartment with a bundle of sharpened colored pencils as well as his penis.