Woman asks Municipal Court to address son’s Providence parking tickets as he works in Boston

A woman identifying herself as the defendant’s mother appeared at the Municipal Court of Providence and asked the court to address parking tickets issued to her son, saying he works in Boston and cannot come to court.

“She said, ‘My son should really be here, you know, to represent himself,’ and added she would call him if the court wanted,” according to the transcript. The woman said she had purchased the vehicle and was not aware that her son had been accruing citations: “So it was this a car that I bought my son, and unbeknownst to me, he was getting these tickets.”

The woman framed her presence as a parental obligation: “You’re here doing what mothers do,” she said, and repeated that her son would not take time off work to appear in Providence. At one point she asked what relief the court could offer for the parking tickets and offered to place a call to her son from the courtroom.

The transcript records the woman referencing an individual by name, saying, “I can see the wheels turning, inspector Quinn,” but it does not record any response from that person or a formal ruling by the court during the excerpt.

There is no record in the transcript of the judge or court staff issuing a disposition or scheduling further proceedings in the provided segments. The exchange in the available transcript is limited to the mother’s repeated offers to have her son participate by phone and her statements about ownership of the vehicle and unawareness of the citations.