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Man gets probation in road-rage death

Originally published: October 4, 2011 5:17 PM
Updated: October 4, 2011 10:09 PM
By ANN GIVENS  ann.givens@newsday.com

Evan Potts leaves the Nassau County Court. (Oct.

Photo credit: Howard Schnapp | Evan Potts leaves the Nassau County Court. (Oct. 4, 2011)

A Nassau County Court judge Tuesday spared Evan Potts from prison time for running over a Long Beach man in 2009 after a road-rage encounter.

A jury last June convicted Potts, 24, of Oceanside, of criminally negligent homicide but acquitted him of the top charge, second-degree manslaughter. He had faced a maximum sentence of 1 1/3 to 4 years in prison.

Judge Phillip Grella, who sentenced...

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