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<\/p>\nA California doctor who tried to kill himself, along with his wife and children, by driving their car off a cliff, has reunited with his family.<\/p>\n
Dharmesh Patel, a radiologist from Pasadena, was facing three counts of attempted murder after he allegedly intentionally drove his Tesla off Devil’s Slide in Pacifica, California \u2014 a 300-foot cliff \u2014 in January 2023.<\/p>\n
Miraculously, Patel, his wife, Neha, and their children all survived.<\/p>\n
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On Monday, Judge Sharon K. Cho dismissed Patel’s three attempted murder charges.<\/p>\n
“Defendant Patel completed the two years of mental health diversion and thus under the California law, Judge Cho had no discretion,” San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe told People<\/a> on Tuesday, July 7. “She had to dismiss the charges; it was not a choice she made to dismiss or not dismiss the charges. My prosecutor did not object for the same reason.”<\/p>\n @bayareafirefighter\/Mega<\/p>\n Following the judge’s ruling, Patel was seen embracing his wife and leaving the courthouse together, according to the New York Post<\/a>.<\/a><\/p>\n “We need him in our life,” Neha, 41, said during a video appearance in court in May 2024. “We’re not a family without him.”<\/p>\n She continued, “The health and safety of my family is of paramount importance \u2026 Seeing my kids in emotional pain is one of the hardest things I’ve had to endure.”<\/p>\n This story Pasadena Doctor Who Drove Family Off California Cliff Reunites With Wife He Tried to Kill<\/a> first appeared on Globe<\/a>. Follow Globe<\/a> on <\/a>Yahoo<\/a> so you don’t miss what’s coming next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A California doctor who tried to kill himself, along with his wife and children, by driving their car…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5526,136074,7,9,3501,8,12913,1977],"class_list":["post-392249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-attempted-murder","tag-attempted-murder-charges","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-law","tag-california-news","tag-pacifica","tag-pasadena"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392249","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=392249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"<span](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/globe_458\/e3fa4d4d617906b6a6ce7757e823a0a9.jpeg\"\/)
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