A 29-year-old woman accused of using false documents to enrol as a New Jersey high school student and attend some classes over a four-day period will be allowed to enter a pretrial intervention programme, a state judge ruled Monday.
Hyejeong Shin had pleaded not guilty in March to a charge of providing a false government document.
Her lawyer has said she did so because she was lonely and longed to return to her days with friends in school but now realises she made a mistake.
She will have to undergo a mental health evaluation and, if she completes the programme, the charge against her could eventually be dismissed.
Shin is a South Korean citizen who came to the United States by herself when she was 16 to attend a private boarding school, the lawyer said. She later graduated from Rutgers University in 2019.
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