A month after prosecutors dropped a murder charge against her, the state nursing board has reinstated the license of Lorie Hentges. The American Red Cross Hentges, 41, of Brick who was charged in 2008 with killing a 72-year-old terminally ill patient at Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune, had always insisted she was innocent. The mother of two has said she volunteered to work that day in April 2007 to help out some co-workers, and said she simply held the hand of a dying man while covering for another nurse who was taking a lunch break. But prosecutors had initially said Hentges gave that man a lethal dose of a drug. Last month, state Superior Court Judge Francis J. Vernoia granted a request from the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office to dismiss the murder indictment after Assistant Prosecutor Marc C. LeMieux told the judge that his office could not prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, that Hentges had killed Alvin Flamenbaum of Toms River on April 14, 2007. When the indictment was dismissed on June 21, the county prosecutor, Luis Valentin, said the case involved complicated medical and toxicological evidence, which was the subject of differing analysis and interpretations by multiple [...]