Frank Caprio, compassionate TV judge with soft spot for veterans, dies at 88

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Frank Caprio, a compassionate television judge with a particular fondness for the military veterans who appeared in his Rhode Island courtroom, died Wednesday of pancreatic cancer. He was 88.

Videos of Caprio’s empathetic traffic court rulings — such as dismissing a $100 ticket for a Vietnam veteran who struggled to find parking near a Veterans Affairs hospital — spread across the internet in recent years like wildfire, garnering billions of views worldwide. X

That popularity led to a nationally syndicated television show called “Caught in Providence” broadcast in 186 cities across the United States.

Caprio — a first-generation American whose father immigrated from Italy at age 12 — was a veteran himself. He joined the Army Reserve in 1954 at the recommendation of his brother, who was also a soldier.

 

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He was quite a character