Dean released, begins probation

NORTH CANAAN — After serving six months of a one-year jail term, Harley Dean was released from Bergin Correctional Institution Oct. 30.

Dean, 27, of Southfield, Mass., was serving a sentence for a conviction of second-degree manslaughter with a motor vehicle, second-degree assault with a motor vehicle and driving under the influence.

It was two years ago on Oct. 7 that Dean and his cousin, Brooks Conklin, 26, were involved in a fatal crash on Route 44 in North Canaan. According to police, the two were driving drunk, each carrying a passenger, in the early morning hours when they raced their pickup trucks and collided, tumbling down an embankment.

Conklin died at the scene.

They had been drinking earlier that evening at Steppin’ Stone in North Canaan.

In December 2007, Dean pleaded “no contest� to the charges brought against him following an extensive investigation.

At Dean’s sentencing the following April, Judge Michael Sheldon acknowledged that Dean had lost a family member, but said he was choosing to send a message about drunk driving with the jail term.

Dean begins a 5-year probationary period. He is prohibited during that time from patronizing bars and must use an interlock device that will prevent him from driving his vehicle while intoxicated. He was ordered to perform 100 hours of community service each year of probation.

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