South Dakota attorney general Jason Ravnsborg removed from office over fatal crash

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/south-dakota-attorney-general-removed-from-office-over-fatal-crash/ar-AAYIzne

South Dakota attorney general removed from office over fatal crash


PIERRE, S.D. — The South Dakota Senate on Tuesday convicted Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg of two impeachment charges stemming from a 2020 fatal accident, removing and barring him from future office in a stinging rebuke that showed most senators didn’t believe his account of the crash.

Ravnsborg, a first-term Republican who only recently announced he wouldn’t seek reelection, showed little emotion as senators convicted him first of committing a crime that caused someone’s death. They then delivered another guilty verdict on a malfeasance charge that alleged he misled investigators and misused his office.

Ravnsborg told a 911 dispatcher the night of the crash that he might have struck a deer or other large animal, and has said he didn’t know he struck a man — 55-year-old Joseph Boever — until he returned to the scene the next morning. Criminal investigators said they didn’t believe some of Ravnsborg’s statements, and several senators made clear they didn’t either.

“There’s no question that was a lie,” said Sen. Lee Schoenbeck, the chamber’s top-ranking Republican. “This person ran down an innocent South Dakotan.”

Schoenbeck also criticized Ravnsborg for declining to testify in his own defense, saying Ravnsborg should have shared “what the hell he was doing” the night of the crash.

“There’s a mic right there, and that’s a damn short walk,” Schoenbeck said.





















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[Tetrachloride]

1. so, way way over a year to impeach

[2naSalit]

2. It's a great start to the summer!

Long over due but at least it happened.

Put me in the "counting blessings" column.

[irisblue]

3. Bout damn time

[marble falls]

4. He actually thought he could stonewall through this and get elected Governor or Senator ...

It is shocking he got no jail, but he will be sued - I hope he missed sending his insurance premium.

[hlthe2b]

5. about damned time. But, I'm surprised that they finally threw him out.

[Haggis 4 Breakfast]

6. Did he think that those glasses that landed on his passenger seat

were worn by the deer he hit ?????????????????

[ret5hd]

7. "If the deer could see good he wudna got hit!"