(upbeat funk music)
David Conte.
Good morning, Your Honor.
Good morning, sir.
Just to let you know, I'm a fan of
your show as well, sir.
Oh, Thank you.
And I also grew up in an Italian neighborhood.
Where?
Eagle Park.
Eagle Park?
Years ago.
And I know a few Cheeches.
And a Chooch, too, but that's my cousin,
that's a different story.
Oh, Cheech and Chooch,
there's two different things, right?
That's for sure, Your Honor.
Cheech is when your name is Francesca.
If you're a Chooch, it means like you're an idiot.
(laughter)
I say to somebody, oh, you're a chooch,
that means like, what's in your head, what are you thinking?
Yes, Your Honor.
Now, I find it very interesting,
in an area as small as Providence,
Yes sir.
I say like, "Where do you come from?"
Now in New York, it's so big,
everything, I come from the Bronx,
I come from Queens, wherever I come from.
Here, in an area that's like about five streets,
I come from Eagle Park.
Right.
Not even 300 yards further,
they say "Where do you come from?"
"I come from Charles Street."
Right.
Now my wife comes from Branch Avenue.
So I ask her where she's from.
She thinks she's from heaven.
I'm sure she is.
I say, "Where do you come from?"
She goes, "Oh, I'm from the North End."
That's what she calls it.
That would be the North End.
The North End, you're from the North End too.
Yes, sir.
Now, an interesting side is,
I was born and raised on Federal Hill.
So, I came from an area
right where Federal Hill begins,
where the Old Canteen is.
Right.
Right across the street from the Old Canteen,
there was a little park, where there was a bathhouse.
Across the street.
It was really a shower house.
People say, "Where do you come from?"
And now, if you were talking to somebody else
from Federal Hill, Right.
And they said, "Where do you come from,"
I say, I come from (speaks in foreign language).
(speaks in a foreign language) means it was a small park
where the bath house was.
Now, somebody else who lived three streets down,
say, "Where you come from?"
And they say, "I come from Garibaldi."
Because where the Bar Association office is now,
there was a playground and that was called Garibaldi
on Brayton Ave, right?
Right.
Now if you went five streets down and say
to somebody else, "Where do you come from?"
They say I come from the pool,
which is where the pool was, on Gessel Street.
And then you ask somebody else, "Where do you come from?"
They say, "I came from Shoo Fly,"
which was an area way down.
Uh-huh.
So within Federal Hill there was about
six different areas where you said you came from.
Right?
Interesting, Inspector Quinn, right?
Yeah.
See Inspector Quinn, you never know when you
come to work, right, how your intellectual horizons
are going to be broadened, how much you're gonna learn.
What gem I'm gonna leave with.
(laughter)
Alright, this is summons number 174096.
Yes, Your Honor.
This was early in the morning.
I received a call.
Mr. Conte, this was on the North End.
You've already said you come from the North End.
You know this area.
You have no excuses, Mr. Conte.
Let's take a look at it.
Second vehicle here
Yeah, you went through it.
As they would say on Federal Hill,
"Ay, you went through the light"
(laughter)
Ay!
You went right through the light, Mr. Conte.
What, are you trying to think of something to say?
Other than from the North End, oo-dee.
(laughter)
Even Inspector Quinn knows oo-dee.
(laughter)
What are you looking at?
I'm just looking at the time.
He's trying to burn a hole, through the,
through the screen.
It was yellow for three seconds,
Your Honor, red for 1.5 seconds,
he was doing 35 miles an hour.
Believe me when I tell you, I would love to help you,
but are you crazy or what?
(laughter)
It's not happening today.
I mean that affectionately.
I don't really mean,
are you (speaks in foreign language).
I don't mean it that way, right?
Right.
Inspector Quinn (speaks in foreign language)
in Italian, it means "you're crazy"
He's not (speaks in foreign language).
He started off with his cousin Chooch, anyway so.
He was familiar with (speaks in foreign language).
He tried all the right things.
He's Italian, he came from the North End,
he knows this, he knows that,
he knows somebody named Cheech,
he knows somebody named Chooch.
(laughter)
And all of that is resulting in an $85 fine.
Thank you, Your Honor.
I would love to help you.
I can't help you on this one.
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Centron Elix.
Good morning, Your Honor.
You're charged with going
through a red light.
And the light is green.
It's yellow.
It's red.
Alright, it's quite clear and quite convincing.
Did you see that, sir?
I did, Your Honor.
Your Honor, the reason why I'm here is,
I'm the first to admit I went through that light.
I was coming from Massachusetts, where I live.
I'm an attorney in juvenile court.
And I was bringing two brothers to the jack o'lanterns.
One of the brothers I've represented
since he was 11 years old.
He's 18 now,
and has had a diagnosis of PTSD.
He saw his father actually shot in front of him.
So for many, many years, I represented him.
He was in and out of his home.
So I ended up bringing these two brother there.
On the way, one of the brothers who I represented
started having an episode.
He's on a pretty high dosage of medication.
He's on an antipsychotic medication.
He just really started having an episode.
His brother was saying, "Don't open the door."
To be honest, I really didn't know what to do.
I didn't wanna, I got off Elmwood Avenue.
We were actually going to the next exit,
'cause I was gonna pick up his girlfriend, at 18.
She lives in Cranston, the family moved.
So I saw Elmwood Avenue, I got off the exit.
I did go through the light, I pulled over.
Ironically, there was a policeman that was maybe about
50 feet in front of me on Elmwood Avenue.
So I actually pulled behind him to explain,
because I figured he saw me go through the light.
I came to him, I got out of the car,
he got out of the car.
He was absolutely terrific.
He actually calmed down Paul, who was the 18-year-old.
I explained to him what happened.
He did tell me he couldn't do anything about it.
He actually didn't even see me go through the light,
but he told me that there was a camera,
that I'd have to wait to come here.
That was really the reason.
I was really petrified,
that he was gonna get out at that light,
and just in the middle of all this hectic traffic.
And maybe it was not the right decision to do.
I did see that no one was coming,
but I just wanted to pull over as much as I could
in case he did jump out.
Yeah, so you've been working pro bono helping this kid?
Actually, when I was appointed,
because I work for the state,
I was appointed, it wasn't pro bono,
but I just had an attachment to him,
his brother, his family.
Mom lost her husband with the shooting.
It just, usually I don't do this, but it was just
one of those things that the family is just
such a great family.
I represented him for six years.
Not going to school, running away.
This was pretty heavy.
I think it was probably the most heavy case
I've ever had in juvenile court.
Well, I'll make this observation that, you're an attorney
in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, are you?
Well, I'll make this observation, that your actions
reflect very well upon the legal profession.
Thank you.
You know, I mean, sometimes different professions
get a bad rap, you know?
Lawyers and police officers, others, you know?
But there are some that go above and beyond
the call of duty, you know,
and you do that by helping out here.
So, Inspector Carrigan, you heard the argument.
You wanna get next to the mic?
Alright, so we have an attorney who's helping out
this family, kids who went through unbelievable trauma.
And one of the kids is threatening to jump out of the car,
and obviously, he went through the light.
So what's your take on this?
Your Honor, it is a .30.
It was very, very close.
The city would be willing to dismiss this
due to the fact of the situation,
the circumstance that were involved.
Yeah, I agree.
And he also did speak with a police officer right there.
I agree.
Given the totality of the circumstances, you know,
and the fact that he stopped and talked to a police officer.
And said something very unusual these days,
Inspector Carrigan.
He said the police officer was very cooperative.
(laughter)
Yes, Your Honor. And helpful.
We haven't been hearing that too much these days.
Your Honor, he helped Paul, the 18-year-old, so much.
He really just calmed him down.
And we actually did end up going to the jack o'lanterns.
You did?
It took about a half hour, but he did,
he took a little bit more of medication he has,
his brother actually had with him,
so it worked out well.
Well, as I said earlier,
based on the totality of the circumstances,
and your good deeds, and reflecting on the
Providence Police, as well,
the matter will be dismissed, with the acquiescence
of the prosecution, Inspector Carrigan.
Thank you so much, Your Honor.
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