South Dakota attorney general impeached over fatal crash

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By STEPHEN GROVES

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — The South Dakota House on Tuesday impeached state Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg over a 2020 fatal crash in which he initially told authorities he thought he had struck a deer or another large animal.

Ravnsborg will at least temporarily be removed from office pending the historic Senate trial, where it takes a two-thirds majority to convict on impeachment charges.

Ravnsborg pleaded no contest last year to a pair of traffic misdemeanors in the crash, including making an illegal lane change. He has cast Joseph Boever’s death as a tragic accident.

On Monday night, he sent lawmakers a pair of defiant letters urging them to vote against impeachment.



FILE - South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg, joined by a bipartisan group of state attorneys general, speaks to reporters in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on Sept. 9, 2019. The South Dakota House is set to decide Tuesday, April 12, 2022, whether Ravnsborg should be impeached for his conduct before and after he struck and killed a pedestrian on the shoulder of a highway. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)


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[Old Okie]

1. Good News

Good to see, thought he was going to get away from manslaughter scot free. No one should be above the law but the bae keeps getting lower.

[rurallib]

2. On dailykos the vote was 36 to 31 to impeach.

31 idiots did not think that killing a person and fleeing the scene is a reason to impeach the state's to law enforcement officer.

Fucking republican morality.

ETA - and I believe any chance of hime ever getting charged with a felony is long gone.

But he did say it was ok cause the man he killed was a Democrat.

[barbtries]

16. he didn't say that

someone texted it to him. i had to google because that is so outrageous. he probably had a good laugh over the text.

https://news.yahoo.com/republican-ag-told-least-guy-224243269.html

that's how my daughter was killed, hit and run. her killer claimed she thought it was an animal too, after my daughter had let out a bone chilling scream and her head broke the windshield right in front of the driver.

have to be glad he lost his position, but prison would be more appropriate in my opinion.

[rurallib]

17. so sorry that happened to your daughter

my condolences

[barbtries]

18. thank you.

[hlthe2b]

3. Will they vote to convict and throw out? I am pleased they got this far.

Cold comfort for the family of that poor many he (knowingly, IMO) killed.

[deurbano]

4. A (small) consequence for a Republican from (some) Republicans! Never thought I'd live to

see the day. Especially since he killed a Democrat. That's practically in the GOP platform.

[Probatim]

15. IIRC, he joked about killing a Democrat - it was a text uncovered during the investigation.

These people are monsters.

[tishaLA]

5. The prosecutors who brought such minor charges against him

should be removed from office, too, because charging him with a lane violation is 100% pure bullshit and I have to believe they're corrupt as hell and didn't charge him with more serious crimes simply for political purposes.

[Talitha]

6. A human life means nothing to Repugs, unless it's inside a Woman's uterus.

[MyOwnPeace]

10. Ain't THAT the truth.......

and THAT only counts until exiting the 'starting place.'

[Historic NY]

7. AG's and Congressman think obeying traffic laws is for the little people in SD.

they've racked up some kills.

[question everything]

8. "His face was in your windshield Jason" an investigator said

refusing to believe that he did not know what he hit

https://democraticunderground.com/12381256

[FreepFryer]

9. They found Boever's eyeglasses on Ravnsborg's passenger seat. Sick fuck knew exactly what he did.

Send him up the river

[Rebl2]

11. How is he

not in jail? Did the prosecutor not charge him?

[Novara]

12. FINALLY

I read the victim went through his windshield.

Hit a deer my ass.

[Mr.Bill]

13. The victim's glasses were found inside the car.

I guess he thinks deer wear glasses.

[Novara]

14. So there must have been a pretty big hole in the windshield

I'll bet he was driving drunk or he was texting.

[bringthePaine]

19. barely started on justice for that fecal pustule