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Utah Utes (official thread)

Buk came to the United States as a refugee in 2011, and within a few years he was already facing multiple felony counts for burglary, animal cruelty, theft, and providing false information to police. However, all those charges were eventually dismissed after Buk's stepmother provided a photo of a birth certificate from South Sudan, which showed his birthdate as being in 2001. That made him a legal minor for a variety of crimes for which he'd been charged as an adult.

His attorneys have argued that the government assigned him an arbitrary birthdate of January 1, 1999, when he arrived in the U.S. as a refugee. They claim that his actual birthdate is November 19, 2001, based on the Sudanese birth certificate.

His birth certificate, which was not verified for authenticity, led to the dismissal of multiple cases against Buk on two separate occasions.

Notably, his Sudanese birth year was 2000 in one of the cases, and changed to 2001 in the other.

Awesome. :sad:
 
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