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Providence municipal judge dismisses multiple traffic and parking cases during morning docket
Summary
At a morning session of the Municipal Court of Providence, a judge dismissed several traffic and parking matters — citing unreadable meters, first-time offenses, credibility and emergency family circumstances — while imposing a $35 court cost in one red-light case.
A judge at the Municipal Court of Providence dismissed several traffic and parking cases during the morning docket, citing first-time offenses, unclear meter markings and urgent family circumstances.
The docket opened with Donald Round, who told the court he visited the Children's Museum with his granddaughter and could not read the downtown parking meter despite putting money into it. "I couldn't read the parking meter," Round said. Inspector Carrigan responded that "some of the meters get defaced," and the judge dismissed the $25 ticket as Round's first…
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