Ravnsborg attended the proceedings but chose not to testify before the Senate. The votes came at the end of the first day of Ravnsborg's impeachment trial at the Capitol in Pierre. Impeached and removedĪttorney General Ravnsborg is the first statewide official to be impeached, removed from office and barred from holding a future office in the state. He pleaded no-contest to two of those in a criminal case stemming from the accident. Ravnsborg was charged with three misdemeanors for the crash. That meeting informed part of the basis for the second article of impeachment for malfeasance in office. We were not supposed to have anything to do with it."Īfter the meeting, Gromer took notes on the meeting and passed them along to his supervisors. We conflicted out of this investigation and contacted North Dakota to do the investigation. That expert, Brent Gromer, who has since retired from the South Dakota DCI, says he was uncomfortable with the meeting. Two days after the crash, Ravnsborg held an impromptu meeting with the South Dakota Division of Criminal Investigation and a digital forensics expert about what kind of information can be recovered from cell phones. "So, when we look at that, our concern is everything that we're seeing here is appearing that you were on your phone reading political stuff at the time," one investigator said in an interrogation. ![]() Ravnsborg repeated many times that he never saw the body that night. A flashlight Boever carried was still on, even when investigators found it later, they said. Investigators told Ravnsborg that Boever's body ended up lying only a couple of feet from the edge of the road. My life changes."Ī crash reconstruction found that Ravnsborg had all four tires on the shoulder of the road when he struck Boever. "Again, why would a man be walking down the road?" Ravnsborg asked North Dakota investigators in Sept. Boever's glasses were found inside Ravnsborg's car. But investigators told Ravnsborg that Boever's face went through his windshield. Throughout police interrogations, Ravnsborg maintained he did not know what he hit until Boever's body was found the next morning. ![]() A police investigation showed that Boever was walking on the shoulder of a highway when Ravnsborg struck him. ![]() 2020, questions arose about Ravnsborg's conduct including a statement that he didn't immediately know he hit a person rather than a deer. Tuesday, state senators removed South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg from office after he struck and killed pedestrian Joe Boever while driving.Īfter the accident in Sept. 2, 2020, that Ravnsborg was distracted before he drove onto a highway shoulder where he struck and killed 55-year-old Joe Boever. Secretary of Public Safety Craig Price said Monday, Nov. 12, 2020 when he struck and killed a pedestrian. This photo shows the car that South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg was driving on Sept.
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