WAUKEGAN – Prosecutors in Lake County have dismissed the remaining charge against a Chicago man who spent 20 years in prison before DNA evidence pointed to someone else.

Lake County State's Attorney Mike Nerheim on Monday agreed to drop the aggravated battery charge against Bennie Starks.

Starks was convicted in 1986 of raping a 68-year-old Waukegan woman. He's been free on bond since 2006 when an appeals court ordered a new trial after DNA testing pointed away from him. Starks was also convicted of a battery charge in the same 1986 attack.