GUILTY SD - Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg, involved in fatal car hit and run, Sioux Falls, Sept 2020 *plea *Impeached*

[Laughing]

Side note, I was recently in a very minor accident, minimal damage to my car, no injuries. The driver of the other car, was charged... with... "Careless Driving'.

Hmmm, I deduce that you are not the Attorney General of South Dakota.

Wait, did I actually infer???

 

[mickey2942]

Hmmm, I deduce that you are not the Attorney General of South Dakota.

Wait, did I actually infer???

Nope, I am not. And...neither was the guy who hit me. Who, BTW, has had two hearings, one was for "restitution", with a following "sentencing" hearing scheduled over a month later. We must be very inefficient here, when South Dakota completes everything in less than an hour.

 

[nells]

SD Lawmakers Call For Ravnsborg To Step Down

Release the evidence! That will force him to resign.

 

[JerseyGirl]

SD Lawmakers Call For Ravnsborg To Step Down

Release the evidence! That will force him to resign.

Good. I’m glad they are putting pressure on him again to resign.

 

[alexwood]

If he isn't impeached, his term ends next year. He won't be re-elected (IMO). I do hope that he is impeached.

 

[nells]

OMFG:

New speeding on August 22: South Dakota AG Jason Ravnsborg stopped for speeding days before no-contest plea

SD Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg gets speeding ticket, his 7th since 2014

AND:

Judge Rescinds Community Service for Ravnsborg Who Faces New Speeding Charge

 

[oviedo]

OMFG:

New speeding on August 22: South Dakota AG Jason Ravnsborg stopped for speeding days before no-contest plea

SD Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg gets speeding ticket, his 7th since 2014

AND:

Judge Rescinds Community Service for Ravnsborg Who Faces New Speeding Charge

clearly this guy thinks he is "above the law"
IMO

 

[Laughing]

OMFG:

New speeding on August 22: South Dakota AG Jason Ravnsborg stopped for speeding days before no-contest plea

SD Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg gets speeding ticket, his 7th since 2014

AND:

Judge Rescinds Community Service for Ravnsborg Who Faces New Speeding Charge

If you didn't click through, this violation was 57 in a 35!!!

I've had 2 speeding tickets in my life. 68 on an interstate when the limit was 55, and 65 / 55 on a curvy two-lane in a brand new car of a new model -- the nice little trooper asked if the car was fun to drive.

57 in a 35? Maybe that county can take his license?

Glad the newspaper published that he has 6 previous tickets in several counties. Good material for the civil suit IMHO, rather a consistent disregard for the laws of South Dakota.

Oh wait what is his job again? Am I misunderstanding something???

jmho ymmv lrr

 

[alexwood]

OMFG:

New speeding on August 22: South Dakota AG Jason Ravnsborg stopped for speeding days before no-contest plea

SD Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg gets speeding ticket, his 7th since 2014

AND:

Judge Rescinds Community Service for Ravnsborg Who Faces New Speeding Charge

According to the above article: "This is Ravnsborg’s seventh speeding ticket in South Dakota since 2014. He has two more from Iowa." [BBM]

 

[nells]

At this point... I'm just speechless...

When will the collected evidence be released? The judge (supposedly) lifted the gag order at the conclusion of the criminal proceedings.

Or, perhaps, that was also "rescinded."

 

[mickey2942]

Seriously?! Let's just have him kill someone before they do something...oh, yeah, he already did KILL someone. But it wasn't "careless driving", because that charge was dropped.

This is beyond outrageous.

 

[nells]

Ravnsborg’s speeding ticket days before court appearance reveals once again his arrogance and lawlessness — The South Dakota Standard

YES.

Release the evidence.

 

[nells]

Boever's Family Responds To Ravnsborg's Sentencing

The victim's widow, Jenny Boever:

“We were building our lives together, and now we will never have that again. Since I must live with this every day for the rest of my life, I hope Jason [Ravnsborg] does too.”

“What [Ravnsborg] did is, he broke his own law. His law states do not use your phone, and what did he do. He was using his phone, and he ended up killing my husband that night, and it has taken an emotional toll beyond anything I’ve ever seen. So I’m against the fact that he will not get jail time at all.”

BBM

 

[misgrn]

Judge drops community service from Ravnsborg sentence | KELOLAND.com

"The judge emailed attorneys on Tuesday, letting them know that he would not be required to do community service. The judge says since Ravnsborg didn’t get any suspended jail time, he can’t impose it."

 

[JerseyGirl]

Judge drops community service from Ravnsborg sentence | KELOLAND.com

"The judge emailed attorneys on Tuesday, letting them know that he would not be required to do community service. The judge says since Ravnsborg didn’t get any suspended jail time, he can’t impose it."

Judge Rescinds Community Service for Ravnsborg Who Faces New Speeding Charge

Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg won’t have to do any community service after he hit and killed a man with his car last year, but he faces a new charge for allegedly driving 22 miles over the speed limit.

“I’m disappointed in the Attorney General for just not accepting that and doing it (community service) on his own,” said Michael Moore, one of the prosecutors in the case. “In his position, with his influence and authority, his resources, he should take that upon himself to do something like that.”

A Hughes County deputy pulled Ravnsborg over in Pierre on August 22, four days before he was set to face trial for driving misdemeanors that allegedly happened before he hit pedestrian Joe Boever.

Ravnsborg was driving 57 mph in a 35-mph-zone near North Garfield and Capitol Avenue at 8:54 p.m., according to his ticket. He was driving a 2020 Chevrolet SUV.

This is Ravnsborg’s seventh speeding ticket in South Dakota since 2014. He has two more from Iowa.

Ravnsborg was not accused of speeding when he hit Boever near Highmore on Sept. 12, 2020. Ravnsborg said he thought he hit a deer and didn’t find the body until the next morning when he returned to the scene in a car he borrowed from the Hyde County Sheriff.

Prosecutors charged Ravnsborg with careless driving, driving outside his lane and driving while on his phone – all Class 2 misdemeanors punished by up to 30 days in jail and/or a $500 fine.

They said South Dakota doesn’t have a negligent homicide charge, and there wasn’t evidence that his behavior met the legal definition of "reckless" that’s required to charge someone with second-degree manslaughter.

 

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Ravnsborg attended an event in Jan., 2020 & made off-the-cuff remark: "One thing I'm good at, it's driving." (from Blogger Cory):

Ravnsborg, 2020: “One Thing I’m Good At, It’s Driving.”

(I guess he was poking fun at himself.)

 

[nells]

South Dakota State News: South Dakota State News


PIERRE, S.D. – Today, Governor Kristi Noem and the South Dakota Department of Public Safety provided the full investigation file into the fatal crash involving South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg and the late Joseph Boever to Spencer Gosch, the Speaker of the South Dakota House of Representatives. The file includes a minimal amount of redacted information referring to unrelated investigations and/or security matters.


“This investigation file represents incredible work by our excellent law enforcement officers, and I thank them for their efforts,” said Governor Noem. “The remarkable detail in this investigation file will assist the House in its important work of considering whether to proceed with impeachment articles for the Attorney General.”


The cover letter from Craig Price, Secretary of the Department of Public Safety, to Speaker Gosch, which is contemporaneously being released, sets out generally what is included within the investigation file. You can read that letter here.


Speaker Gosch said in March that the House would wait until after “the judicial system is able to do its job” to proceed with articles of impeachment against Ravnsborg. The South Dakota Sheriff’s Association, the South Dakota Police Chiefs Association, and the South Dakota Fraternal Order of Police previously called on him to resign."

[BBM]

Interesting Cover Letter - via WeTransfer

[First saw on Blogger Cory's site]

 

[nells]

Hmm... keep an eye out for any document dumps.

Here is bodycam footage of JR getting a speeding ticket days before the plea deal:

Bodycam footage shows AG Ravnsborg getting speeding ticket | KELOLAND.com

 

[alexwood]

Hmm... keep an eye out for any document dumps.

Here is bodycam footage of JR getting a speeding ticket days before the plea deal:

Bodycam footage shows AG Ravnsborg getting speeding ticket | KELOLAND.com

Oh, but he was racing to the landfill (or wherever) with his recyclables before they closed! Doing his civic duty. I hope the officer checked to see if he actually had any recyclable materials in his vehicle, and at the bottoms of each to make sure they were truly recyclable material. (You know, those little triangles with numbers inside them.)

Unlike most of us, he doesn't put his bin out at the curb for usual residential trash pickup.

 

[nells]

Oh, but he was racing to the landfill (or wherever) with his recyclables before they closed! Doing his civic duty. I hope the officer checked to see if he actually had any recyclable materials in his vehicle, and at the bottoms of each to make sure they were truly recyclable material. (You know, those little triangles with numbers inside them.)

Yes, on a Sunday evening, of course.