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    S.D. Attorney General involved in deadly crash



    https://www.keloland.com/news/local-...-deadly-crash/
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    SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem held a press conference in Sioux Falls on Sunday to announce Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg was involved in a fatal crash.

    It happened Saturday night in Hyde County.

    Gov. Noem said the attorney general was involved in a crash around 10:30 p.m. She said the crash happened on Highway 14, west of Highmore. She says there was a fatality.

    Law enforcement is working to identify the deceased. South Dakota Highway Patrol will run the investigation and the Department of Public Safety Secretary Craig Price will oversee the investigation and report directly to Gov. Kristi Noem.

    On Ravnsborg’s Facebook page, he announced he would be at the Spink County GOP dinner on Saturday night in Redfield.

    Ravnsborg was elected into position in 2018.

    The Attorney General’s office released the following statement from Ravnsborg:


    Originally posted by Lying Murderous South Dakota Head Barratard

    I am shocked and filled with sorrow following the events of last night. As Governor
    Noem stated, I am fully cooperating with the investigation and I fully intend to
    continue do so moving forward. At this time I offer my deepest sympathy and
    condolences to the family.

    JASON RAVNSBORG
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    South Dakota Department of Public Safety spokesman Tony Mangan said Sunday night that a news release would be distributed Monday.
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    South Dakota lawyers are good at Barratry & Bloodshed

    South Dakota attorney general involved in fatal car crash initially reported he hit a deer

    By Paul LeBlanc and Konstantin Toropin, CNN
    Updated 1:48 AM ET, Tue September 15, 2020


    https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/14/polit...org/index.html
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    (CNN)South Dakota's attorney general struck and killed a man while driving on Saturday night, a death that was discovered after he initially told police he had hit a deer, the South Dakota Department of Public Safety said Monday.

    Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg had told the Hyde County Sheriff's Office that he was uninjured after hitting a deer on the highway at about 10:30 p.m. CT on Saturday, according to a release from the department of public safety. The body of 55-year-old Joseph Boever, a pedestrian, was discovered on Sunday morning.

    The DPS statement did not mention whether Ravnsborg stopped his vehicle after the incident.

    South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem said in a news conference Sunday that the South Dakota Highway Patrol will conduct an investigation of the collision, which will be overseen by Cabinet Secretary for the South Dakota Department of Public Safety Craig Price.

    "We are currently working the investigation as referenced by Governor Noem in Hyde County," Price said Sunday. "South Dakota Highway Patrol routinely investigates fatality crashes across our state and we will handle this as we would any other fatal crash."

    Ravnsborg's chief of staff Timothy Bormann called the episode "a tragic accident" in a statement released Monday.

    "The Office of the Attorney General extends our deepest sympathy and condolences to the family of Mr. Boever. The Attorney General, and our office, are cooperating fully with the ongoing investigation of this event and will continue to do so," he said.

    Ravnsborg, a Republican, was elected South Dakota attorney general in 2018, according to his office's website. CNN has reached out to the attorney general for comment on the crash.



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      South Dakota attorney general now says he found body of man he hit with car and killed

      South Dakota attorney general now says he found body of man he hit with car and killed

      SEPTEMBER 15, 2020 / 8:07 AM / CBS/AP


      https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jason-r...-man-with-car/
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      Sioux Falls, South Dakota — South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg said in a statement late Monday that he discovered he had struck and killed a man walking along a rural stretch of highway only after returning to the scene the next day and discovering the body.

      The state's top law enforcement officer said he initially thought he hit a deer while driving home from a Republican fundraiser on Saturday night. He is under investigation by the South Dakota Highway Patrol.

      Ravnsborg said he immediately called 911 after the crash on a rural stretch of U.S. Highway 14 and did not realize he had hit a man until returning to the scene the next morning and finding him while looking for the animal he thought he hit. Ravnsborg's revelation that he had found the body of the man, 55-year-old Joseph Boever, was the latest twist in a grim incident where information has come out slowly.

      The Department of Public Safety issued a statement earlier Monday that said only that Ravnsborg told the Hyde County Sheriff's Office that he had hit a deer. Department spokesman Tony Mangan would not confirm whether Ravnsborg called 911, saying it is part of the investigation.

      Authorities identified the dead man as Boever on Monday. He had crashed his truck in that area earlier, according to relatives, and was apparently walking near the road toward it.

      Republican Gov. Kristi Noem had revealed Sunday that Ravnsborg was involved in a fatal crash and asked the Department of Public Safety to investigate, but neither she nor the agency had provided any details.

      The North Dakota Bureau of Criminal Investigation is also participating in the investigation. The South Dakota Division of Criminal Investigation, which would normally be involved, is part of the attorney general's office. It is standard practice to request an outside agency to conduct an investigation when there may be a conflict of interest.

      Ravnsborg said Sunday he was "shocked and filled with sorrow." He released a second statement on Monday night detailing his account of the accident, saying it was necessary to dispel rumors.

      Ravnsborg said he was driving from a Republican fundraiser in Redfield to his home some 110 miles away when his vehicle hit something he believed to be a large animal. Ravnsborg said he called 911 and then looked around his vehicle in the dark, using a cell phone flashlight. He said all he could see were pieces of his vehicle.

      After Hyde County Sheriff Mike Volek arrived, the two men surveyed the damage and filled out paperwork for his car to be repaired. "At no time did either of us suspect that I had been in an accident with a person," Ravnsborg said.

      With his car wrecked, Ravnsborg said he borrowed the sheriff's personal car to return to his home in Pierre. The next morning, he and chief of staff Tim Bormann drove back to return the sheriff's car.

      They stopped at the spot of the accident, where Ravnsborg said he discovered Boever's body in the grass just off the shoulder of the road. He said it was apparent Boever was dead.

      Ravnsborg said he drove to Volek's house and reported the dead body. They both returned to the accident scene, where Volek said he would handle the investigation and asked Ravnborg to return to Pierre, according to Ravnsborg's statement.

      Ravnsborg said he was cooperating with the investigation, including providing a blood sample, agreeing to have both of his cell phones searched, and interviewing with law enforcement agents.

      Boever's family members said earlier Monday they felt frustrated and suspicious with the investigation, especially after investigators took nearly 22 hours to allow them to identify Boever's body.

      Boever had crashed his truck into a hay bale near the road earlier Saturday evening, according to his cousin Victor Nemec. Boever told his cousin that he had been reaching for some tobacco.

      Nemec had given Boever a ride home, which was about 1.5 miles away, and made plans to make repairs on Sunday. He left Boever after 9 p.m. The crash that killed him happened around 10:30 p.m. Nemec said "there was no indication whatsoever" that his cousin had been drinking.

      Boever lived alone and had been separated from his wife, Nick Nemec, another cousin, said.

      Victor Nemec, the last known person to see Boever, said that besides answering a few brief questions when he identified the body, investigators have not questioned him about what happened.

      "A human doesn't look like a deer," he said. "The whole thing stinks to me."

      When Boever's cousins could not find him at his home on Sunday and saw an accident being investigated near where Boever had left his truck, they grew fearful that he was involved. Victor Nemec said he contacted the sheriff around 10 a.m. and was told to wait. As the hours ticked on, they grew more suspicious and called 911 and the Highway Patrol after 5 p.m. They were allowed to identify his body after 8 p.m. on Sunday.

      "I don't know if cousin Joe was laying on the highway for 22 hours or if they had bagged him up before that," Nick Nemec said.

      Victor Nemec told CBS affiliate KELO-TV he questions whether or not a 911 call was made because no sirens were heard leaving Highmore Saturday night. The Nemecs said the scene was teeming with law enforcement and emergency vehicles for hours on Sunday.

      "My worst fear is that they're trying to get ducks in a row to absolve the attorney general of any wrongdoing," Nick Nemec said.

      Ravnsborg had been at a fundraising dinner hosted by the Spink County Republicans at Rooster's Bar & Grill. The attorney general is known to be a frequent attendee of the fundraisers known as Lincoln Day Dinners, held by county GOP groups across the state.

      Bormann said the attorney general drinks occasionally, but has made it a practice not to drink at the Lincoln Day events.

      "I didn't see him with anything but a Coke," said state Sen. Brock Greenfield, who also attended the dinner.

      Ravnsborg has received six traffic tickets for speeding in South Dakota over the last six years. He also received tickets for a seat belt violation and for driving a vehicle without a proper exhaust and muffler system.

      The accident prompted some to recall a 2003 incident in which Bill Janklow, a former four-term governor who was a congressman at the time, ran a stop sign at a rural intersection and killed a motorcyclist. Janklow was convicted of manslaughter, prompting his resignation.

      The Department of Public Safety says its investigation into Ravnsborg's crash is ongoing.

      First published on September 15, 2020 / 8:07 AM



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        Wait baffles family of man killed in South Dakota AG crash

        Wait baffles family of man killed in South Dakota AG crash

        Two cousins of a man whom the South Dakota attorney general struck and killed with his car say they're frustrated that they're still waiting to hear whether the state’s top law enforcement officer will face criminal charges in the crash

        By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press
        February 13, 2021, 10:25 AM


        https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/...ta-ag-75872197
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        PIERRE, S.D. -- Most days, brothers Nick and Victor Nemec drive past the spot where South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg struck and killed their cousin Joseph Boever with his car. And five months later, with key questions unanswered, they are frustrated that they still don't know if the state’s top law enforcement officer will face criminal charges.

        The blood stains on the rural stretch of highway have nearly disappeared, a faint reminder of the September night when Ravnsborg struck Boever as he drove home from a Republican fundraiser.

        The attorney general has said he is confident he did not commit a crime. According to a statement he released in September, Ravnsborg at first thought he had hit a deer and only discovered he had killed a man when he returned to the crash scene the next morning.

        But investigators have said the attorney general was distracted and turned their findings over to prosecutors. The attorneys deciding whether to charge Ravnsborg have taken months to further assess the crash.

        That's left the Nemec brothers with questions: How did Ravnsborg not realize he had hit a man? How did the sheriff who responded to the crash not find Boever’s body, which appeared to be lying just feet from the pavement? What caused Ravnsborg to swerve onto the shoulder of the road where investigators say Boever was walking?

        The brothers have little to go on except for one notebook page they filled with measurements of tire skid marks and blood streaks at the crash scene.

        “You reach a point of resignation," Nick Nemec said. “You get beat down by the system and you just kind of resign.”

        Michael Moore, a state's attorney from Beadle County who is helping the local prosecutor, Emily Sovell, with the case, said some answers will come in the “next few weeks.” Sovell has not responded to requests for comment.

        “The question that everybody is waiting for is, is he is criminally responsible for the death?” Moore said.

        Prosecutors are trying to find whether Ravnsborg purposely disregarded safe driving. They are pulling together cellphone GPS data, video footage from along the route Ravnsborg was driving and DNA evidence in an effort to assess whether he should be criminally charged.

        Ravnsborg accumulated eight traffic tickets, including six for speeding, from 2004 to 2019.

        Moore said he understands the frustration with waiting for a decision in such a high-profile case, but that it was not unusual for a criminal crash investigation to take this long.

        But Gov. Kristi Noem, who oversaw the Department of Public Safety's investigation, has expressed frustration at how the investigation has dragged. She said this week that she did not know why it has taken prosecutors five months, but was hopeful they would “come to an agreement” on charges.

        Ravnsborg said this week that he hoped prosecutors would take however long they feel is “appropriate.”

        But he also hinted he is impatient, saying: “I think that everybody involved would like to have the answer.”



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        He was drunk/distracted driving home, hit someone, allegedly stopped to check what he hit, saw nothing then went home.

        Why go back if he thought it was a deer? And why with a sheriff?

        The likelihood is that he stopped that night because he knew he'd killed a man. He moved the victim to the ditch where he couldn't be seen, then called the sheriff that night to say he hit a deer and looked for it but didn't see anything. The 'looking for it' part would cover why his footprints were all over the crime scene.

        The next day, after he'd sobered up and alcohol is no longer in his system to be tested, he goes out there with the sheriff to find the victim where he'd moved the body into a location that would be hard to see at night. There's more footprints put on the crime scene to muddy the evidence further.

        If I thought I'd hit a deer, and had the kind of damage his truck had, I'd have stopped, called the cops and a tow truck and made sure whatever I hit was found and put down or cared for (depending on the injuries). That's what my sister-in-law did when she hit one. It's what any normal human being would do, because they tend to do some pretty impressive damage to a vehicle.

        I think he killed the guy because he was drunk and speeding, covered it up and is trying to say it was an accident. His actions were very unusual for anyone, let along a prosecutor, since what he did was interfere with a crime scene, claiming he didn't know it was a crime scene. That's that part I don't believe. He was not watching the road if the thought he hit a deer, because the clothing the victim was wearing (flannel and jeans) doesn't look like a deer even at night. Or he was speeding excessively to miss seeing that, since he'd have at least a second or two to see what he was about to run into at the posted speed limit.

        One way or the other, this man was killed during the commission of a traffic violation, making it manslaughter at the least.


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        https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/...ent-5267299020

        I can't say about him or other people, but if I hit something seriously big, I woul stop to check the damage to my car ifnothong else. And if I saw blood, I would try to make sure it wasn't a person.

        Of course, that assumes I did not see what I hit, but that would involve something like fog or heavy rain.

        What bothers me is that he swerved onto a shoulder and hit something.

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        • #5
          South Dakota AG Jason Ravnsborg faces 3 misdemeanor charges for fatal crash

          South Dakota AG Jason Ravnsborg faces 3 misdemeanor charges for fatal crash

          MEREDITH DELISO
          Thu, February 18, 2021, 6:16 PM·4 min read



          https://www.yahoo.com/gma/south-dako...001633184.html
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          South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg faces three misdemeanor charges after fatally striking a pedestrian on a highway in September, officials announced Thursday.

          The charges include operating a motor vehicle while using a mobile device, lane driving violation and careless driving, Emily Sovell, the Sully County state’s attorney and Hyde County deputy state’s attorney in South Dakota, said during a press briefing.

          Ravnsborg, 44, was not on his cell phone at the time of the accident but was outside the lanes of travel, Sovell said, when he hit the 55-year-old victim, Joseph Boever, in Hyde County in central South Dakota on Sept. 12.

          An investigation completed a month after the crash initially determined that Ravnsborg was distracted when he struck Boever with his 2011 Ford Taurus. But on Thursday, Beadle County State's Attorney Michael Moore said that at the time of impact, Ravnsborg was not a distracted driver.

          "We know that because his phones were analyzed," Moore said, noting that Ravnsborg had two cell phones on him at the time. "His phones were locked approximately 1 minute and 15 seconds prior to the impact."

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          The accident did not meet the conditions for manslaughter, Sovell announced, noting that toxicology reports previously released showed Ravnsborg was not under the influence of any drugs or alcohol.

          "For vehicular homicide in South Dakota, it requires that one be under the influence of alcohol, drugs or substances in a manner and a degree prohibited by law, without design to affect death, but that ultimately after negligent actions, results in the death of another human being," Sovell said. "That's simply not applicable in this case."

          Sovell stressed that the investigation of the high-ranking official was "very, very thorough."

          "There was no delay by the prosecutors," she said. "It was a smart decision for prosecutors to await all of the evidence before we came to our final decision in this case."

          The North Dakota Bureau of Criminal Investigation headed the investigation, and the South Dakota Highway Patrol provided accident reconstruction, Sovell said. The state's attorneys for Beadle and Pennington counties in South Dakota also reviewed the case, she said.

          Moore called it a "tragic accident."

          "The victim's remedy is in civil court, not criminal court," Beadle County's state's attorney said during the briefing.

          The maximum penalty for each charge if convicted is 30 days in jail, a $500 fine or both. A special judge will likely be appointed, and Ravnsborg will be summoned to court "at that point in time," Sovell said.

          In a statement, Ravnsborg said this has been a "difficult and trying time for everyone involved."

          "I appreciate, more than ever, that the presumption of innocence placed within our legal system continues to work," he said. "I have always practiced this in my professional life and I understand it even better now as I see that we live in a society where every person enjoys the protection of the law.

          "I have and will continue to pray for Joe Boever and his family," the statement continued. "I cannot imagine their pain and loss and I do send my deepest condolences to them."

          Ravnsborg was alone while driving west in a rural area on U.S. Highway 14, about a mile west of Highmore, South Dakota, when the accident occurred.

          Investigators were unable to determine how long he was outside the lane of travel and if Ravnsborg realized that he was, Moore said.

          Ravnsborg told authorities he initially thought he hit a deer. He previously disclosed that he called 911. He said he searched a ditch with the Hyde County sheriff using a cell phone flashlight looking for the deer at around 10:30 p.m. on Sept. 12. He said he discovered Boever's body when he returned to the scene the next day and reported his discovery to the sheriff. On Thursday, Sovell and Moore confirmed that sequence of events.

          Boever was carrying a light while walking on the shoulder of Highway 14, which measures about 10.5 feet, when he was struck, authorities said in November. The initial cause of death was listed as traumatic injuries -- both internal and external.

          The Boever family was informed of the charging decision earlier Thursday, Moore said.

          “They obviously don’t like our decision in this case, but as we all know, victims don’t make this decision,” he said.

          Ravnsborg, who was elected in 2018, was not placed under administrative leave and continued to work after the crash.

          The attorney general has a string of previous driving violations, according to state records. He pleaded guilty to speeding six times between 2014 and 2018 and paid fines between $19 and $79, according to state records.

          ABC News' Karma Allen, Joshua Hoyos, Julia Jacobo, Jen Leong and Ivan Pereira contributed to this report.

          South Dakota AG Jason Ravnsborg faces 3 misdemeanor charges for fatal crash originally appeared on abcnews.go.com

          Ravnsborg told authorities he initially thought he hit a deer. He previously disclosed that he called 911. He said he searched a ditch with the Hyde County sheriff using a cell phone flashlight looking for the deer at around 10:30 p.m. on Sept. 12. He said he discovered Boever's body when he returned to the scene the next day and reported his discovery to the sheriff. On Thursday, Sovell and Moore confirmed that sequence of events.

          Boever was carrying a light while walking on the shoulder of Highway 14, which measures about 10.5 feet, when he was struck, authorities said in November. The initial cause of death was listed as traumatic injuries -- both internal and external.

          The Boever family was informed of the charging decision earlier Thursday, Moore said.

          “They obviously don’t like our decision in this case, but as we all know, victims don’t make this decision,” he said.

          Ravnsborg, who was elected in 2018, was not placed under administrative leave and continued to work after the crash.

          The attorney general has a string of previous driving violations, according to state records. He pleaded guilty to speeding six times between 2014 and 2018 and paid fines between $19 and $79, according to state records.

          ABC News' Karma Allen, Joshua Hoyos, Julia Jacobo, Jen Leong and Ivan Pereira contributed to this report.

          South Dakota AG Jason Ravnsborg faces 3 misdemeanor charges for fatal crash originally appeared on abcnews.go.com


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            Police grilled South Dakota AG on phone use before crash

            Police grilled South Dakota AG on phone use before crash

            Investigators questioning South Dakota’s attorney general after a fatal car crash pressed him on how he did not realize he had struck a man and whether he had been on his phone right before the crash

            ByThe Associated Press
            February 24, 2021, 4:27 PM


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            SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -- Investigators questioning South Dakota’s attorney general after a fatal car crash pressed him on how he did not realize he had struck a man and whether he had been reading email and checking news sites on his phone immediately before, according to videos of their interviews.

            In two videos released by Gov. Kristi Noem late Tuesday, criminal investigators confront the state's top law enforcement officer, Jason Ravnsborg, with gruesome details of the crash, at one point telling him: “His face was in your windshield, Jason, think about that.”

            Ravnsborg appeared unsure of how he had swerved onto a highway shoulder and killed 55-year-old Joseph Boever, but detectives told him Boever’s glasses had been found inside his Ford Taurus and that bone scrapings were found on the rumble strip of the highway shoulder. Investigators said they found one part of Boever’s severed glasses on the front, passenger-side floorboard and the other part in the back seat.

            The Republican attorney general is facing three misdemeanor charges in the Sept. 12 crash, as well as calls for his resignation from Gov. Kristi Noem and impeachment proceedings in the Legislature.

            Noem made the extraordinary move of releasing over three hours of video from two separate interviews, the Argus Leader reported. One took place two days after the crash, while the other was weeks later, after investigators had determined more details about what happened.

            In the interview, Ravnsborg insisted he wasn’t looking at his phone at the moment his car struck and killed Boever. Ravnsborg appeared distressed as he heard how the impact with Boever's body had left an imprint on the car hood and smashed the windshield.

            “I never saw him,” he told the investigators. “I never saw him.”

            The detectives pressed Ravnsborg on whether he was distracted when he hit Boever. After he said he was not using his phone before the crash, they confronted him with phone records, telling him they show he logged into his Yahoo email account and accessed a news website minutes before he called 911 to report the crash.

            “So when we look at that, our concern is everything we are seeing here is it’s appearing you were on your phone reading political stuff at the time," the detective told Ravnsborg, adding, “People make mistakes.”

            They pointed out that he had previously been called out for using Twitter while driving in the Black Hills, but Ravnsborg insisted that he had set the phone down before he hit Boever.

            He said the last thing he remembered before the crash was turning off the radio and looking down at the speedometer. He had been accelerating after passing through the town of Highmore, but said he had not yet set his cruise control. Prosecutors said they determined Ravnsborg was driving 67 mph (108 kph) — just 2 mph over the speed limit — when he struck Boever.

            The attorney general has been charged with using his phone while driving, but prosecutors said his phone records show he had locked the device about a minute before the crash.

            The detectives also questioned how Ravnsborg could have searched the area with his cellphone flashlight, at one point walking right by Boever's body, and not seen his body. They pointed out that part of Boever's white skin was exposed and a flashlight he had been carrying was still on. The detectives said it would have been hard to miss both Boever's body, lying in the grass near the highway pavement, and a flashlight shining on a dark night.

            Ravnsborg insisted he saw neither and pointed out that the sheriff and tow truck driver who arrived later also had not spotted Boever's body or the flashlight. Earlier in the interview, the attorney general told detectives that he had no idea he had killed a man until the next day when he stopped by the accident scene with his chief of staff, Tim Bormann.

            He said, “I found the body and I just came to Tim, and I said: ‘Tim, Tim, Tim, you’ve got to come here. I found a body.’”

            In a statement calling for Ravnsborg's resignation, Noem said she would be releasing video of the interviews. Ravnsborg has indicated he has no intention of stepping down.

            Meanwhile, prosecutors who charged the attorney general had asked the Department of Public Safety to not release the videos.

            Michael Moore, the Beadle County State’s Attorney, said Wednesday that the videos' release defies open records laws that exempt such information from being made publicly available, could influence potential jurors, and violates “the rules of professional responsibility” for criminal cases.

            “Every defendant has the right to a fair and impartial trial,” Moore said.

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                • #9
                  A Death in the Darkness Roils South Dakota Politics

                  Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg refuses to resign after a fatal car accident on a deserted highway.


                  https://www.wsj.com/articles/death-s...=hp_opin_pos_6

                  Hot Springs, S.D.

                  The attorney general of South Dakota killed a man. Around 10:30 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 12, 2020, Jason Ravnsborg was driving home to the state capital of Pierre when he ran down Joe Boever, 55, who was walking along the shoulder of the road. Boever’s face smashed through the windshield of Mr. Ravnsborg’s red Ford Taurus hard enough to leave his eyeglasses in the car. He then bounced off into the long grass. Mr. Ravnsborg pulled over to call 911—only to identify himself as the attorney general and explain that he had hit something on Highway 14 about a mile outside the small town of Highmore.

                  From there the story is murky. Why did the Hyde County sheriff, who responded to the 911 call, not see Boever’s body beside the road—and why did he lend Mr. Ravnsborg his personal car, waving off any test for alcohol? Why was Boever walking along the shoulder of a deserted highway at night, and how close was he to the oncoming lane?

                  Without clear answers, an investigating committee of the South Dakota House recommended against impeachment this week. But the politics are as murky as the facts. Why is the state Republican Party protecting Mr. Ravnsborg? And why is Republican Gov. Kristi Noem advocating so strongly for his removal?

                  At the very least, the attorney general failed to demonstrate model behavior. The morning after the incident, after returning to Pierre, Mr. Ravnsborg told his chief of staff, Tim Bormann, that he thought he had hit a deer. The two of them drove back to Highmore to fetch the damaged car, but they stopped outside town to look over the accident scene. What they found was Boever’s corpse. Boever’s flashlight would soon be found nearby. It was still on.

                  The sheriff turned the case over to the state Division of Criminal Investigation, which reports to the attorney general, and once the eyeglasses were found in the Taurus, the detectives called in neutral investigators from North Dakota. Mr. Ravnsborg’s interviews with the investigators were posted on an official state website for a few weeks (South Dakota Department of Public Safety Secretary Craig Price is another of Mr. Ravnsborg’s detractors), and the video is painful to watch. “His face was in your windshield, Jason. Think about that,” the North Dakota Bureau of Investigation agents pointed out, refusing to believe that the driver didn’t know what he had hit.

                  Emily Sovell, deputy state’s attorney for Hyde County, was a classmate of Mr. Ravnsborg at the University of South Dakota law school. On Feb. 18, 2021, she charged him with three class 2 misdemeanors: operating a motor vehicle while operating a mobile device, traveling outside his lane and careless driving. After Mr. Ravnsborg’s lawyer made discovery demands for records of Boever’s pain-relief medication and alcohol use, a plea bargain was reached, with the careless-driving charge dropped. On Aug. 26, almost a year after the incident, Mr. Ravnsborg pleaded no contest to the two remaining charges. The sentence: a $1,000 fine and $3,000 in court costs.

                  Through it all, Mr. Ravnsborg has refused to resign, and in a legislature dominated by Republicans—35 to 3 in the Senate, 62 to 8 in the House—the chances of impeaching him are now essentially zero, despite the governor’s ire, manifested in the public release of evidence (until a judge ordered her to stop), official statements and a storm of anti-Ravnsborg tweets.

                  There’s much speculation about why Gov. Noem has pushed so hard. The political activists and reporters I interviewed offered a range of speculations, not for attribution. Some said she’s never liked Mr. Ravnsborg, who had a thin record as a lawyer before he was elected. Others say she wants to replace him with the former attorney general, Marty Jackley, or with a lawyer on her own staff. Many political observers in the state still remember the ruin of political titan Bill Janklow, who killed a motorcyclist in a 2003 accident, and speculate that Gov. Noem considers Mr. Ravnsborg a political liability.

                  The simplest reason Gov. Noem wants him gone may be that she truly believes he’s guilty. “Jason Ravnsborg killed a man, lied to investigators . . . and attempted to cover it up,” she tweeted earlier this week.

                  Boever’s family certainly agrees. His estranged wife, Jennifer Boever (who accepted a settlement from Mr. Ravnsborg), wept in the statehouse at the recommendation against impeachment, and Boever’s cousin Nick Nemec told me that “the whole process has been focused on a preordained conclusion” to exonerate the attorney general.

                  Nick Nemec is a former state legislator himself.

                  Perhaps lawmakers are correct to claim that the incident doesn’t fit the constitutional requirements for impeachment. There’s no evidence he deliberately murdered a man. There’s not even any certain evidence he committed involuntary manslaughter, in the strict sense of the legal charge. It might have been simply an automobile accident, as he has described it. But the fact remains: The attorney general of South Dakota killed a man.


                  First of all the courts of South Dakota are even more corrupt than in Ohio and Missouri. Especially when it comes to probate and separating a family farm heirs from their property to sell to billionares -- like Ted Turner in Stanley County. Right now I am facing losing my inheritance to lawyers in Ohio and in Pierre who stole my sister's legal documentation. I did a hearing on Aug. 31, 2020 and an account can be read in the Daily Capital Journal of 3 Sept. 2020. The pen in one of the pictures was given to me to gloat by the opposing lawyer can be seen in one of the pictures. Just google my name and the article shall appear.

                  That said if it was up to me I'd simply exterminate every single lawyer and judge to improve civilization.

                  I talked to one of my former renters Sunday night. He lives in Haakon County and knows the lie of the land up there. He supports the Attorney General.

                  According to him Boever was suicidal and deliberately stepped in front of the speeding car on State Hwy 34 as the Attorney General left a drunken Republican Party event. Regardless of me blaming the AG everything done was justified. Boever wasn't a drunken Indian as his cousin was in the SD legislature.

                  Governor then Congressman Janklow drove past a stop sign back in 2003 and was convicted of manslaugher, ending his career. I suspect that the sheriff and AG worked out a deal once they figured out Boever was dead to simply do a few misdeameanors instead of manslaughter and leaving the scene.


                  .There are a number of stories swirling around South Dakota. The entire state is run by corrupt lawyers wanting to bring in trusts to park billions. SD is the next Delaware or Cayman Islands.

                  The person ran over is related to a former state legislator. The story amongst those supporting the current order says that he was suicidal and threw himself in front of the car, not knowing who was driving it. Others say that his pickup was in the ditch and he was walking towards it in the dark. The AG just got out of a Republican officials party where they were discussing politics. Not stated is how much he had to drink.

                  Whenever you hit a possum or skunk you keep on going as you do when hitting a dog. When you hit a deer everyone pulls to the side hoping to at least get something out of the matter. If there are glasses in the passenger seat then . . .

                  Ravnsborg, the local sheriff and prosecuting attorney have dealt with DUI and manslaughter cases before, so they used that knowledge and power to get off with a minor fine for leaving the scene of a fatal accident with a loaner car. Sure, it stinks, but such is life in South Dakota.

                  The governor as a mediocre politician wants to be the next Sarah Palin. This stink will attach to her as well.


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