{"id":38366,"date":"2025-11-05T00:48:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T00:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/38366\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T00:48:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T00:48:07","slug":"motion-filed-for-mental-health-diversion-in-riddhi-patel-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/38366\/","title":{"rendered":"Motion filed for mental health diversion in Riddhi Patel case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A motion has been filed seeking mental health diversion for <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/search?find=Riddhi+Patel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Riddhi Patel<\/a>, the protester <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/protestor-charged-for-threatening-to-murder-bakersfield-lawmakers-over-gaza-resolution-riddhi-patel-bakersfield-california-israel-gaza-hamas-war-invasion-ceasefire-middle-east-protest-liberal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">accused of making threats to Bakersfield City Council members in April 2024<\/a>. Patel is facing 21 felony counts. <\/p>\n<p>Patel was allegedly heard during the meeting saying, &#8220;We\u2019ll see you at your house, we\u2019ll murder you.&#8221; The threats were reportedly made in response to demands for the city to pass a resolution for a ceasefire in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>If the motion is approved and successfully completed, Patel could avoid jail time.<\/p>\n<p>This marks the third recent mental health diversion motion in Kern County Superior Court. <\/p>\n<p>Next Wednesday, Nov. 12, attorneys for <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/husband-of-kern-county-supervisor-arrested-for-making-threats\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Fernando Jara<\/a>, husband of Supervisor Leticia Perez, will present their case. Jara is accused of making criminal threats. <\/p>\n<p>Last month, attorneys for Zack Scrivner<a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/hearing-for-zack-scrivners-mental-health-diversion-motion-postponed-to-december-15-bakersfield-kern-county-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> filed a similar motion<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Patel&#8217;s hearing is scheduled for Dec. 2, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A motion has been filed seeking mental health diversion for Riddhi Patel, the protester accused&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-38366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}