South Dakota AG to take plea deal after fatally striking man with his car, prosecutor says

[RandySF]

PIERRE, S.D. — South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg will avoid a trial and take a plea deal for misdemeanor traffic charges in a crash last year in which he hit and killed a man who was walking along a rural highway, a prosecutor said Wednesday.

Beadle County State’s Attorney Michael Moore, who is one of two prosecutors on the case, told The Associated Press that “there won’t be a trial and there will be a plea entered,” but he declined to discuss further details of the arrangement. The plea will be entered Thursday, when Ravnsborg’s trial was scheduled to begin, he said.

Moore said a judge’s order that bars state officials from disclosing details of the investigation prevented him from disclosing further details.

The attorney general's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Ravnsborg, the state's top law enforcement officer, faced three misdemeanor charges that each carry sentences of up to 30 days in jail and up to a $500 fine.



https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/south-dakota-ag-take-plea-deal-after-fatally-striking-man-n1277636

[niyad]

1. May he, and his enablers, receive everything they deserve.

[OAITW r.2.0]

2. Imagine if you can kill 10s of thousands....

By enacting laws that kill 10's of thousands.

[The Magistrate]

3. Disgusting, Sir

Hit and run, vehicular homicide.

[stopdiggin]

4. pled down from three misdemeanors

Which means - hand slap and small fine? The good news is - civil lawsuit coming right up! And since you veered on to the shoulder to strike the man ... We own your ass!

- snip - - Three law enforcement groups, the South Dakota Fraternal Order of Police, the South Dakota Chiefs’ of Police Association and the South Dakota Sheriffs’ Association, joined the governor’s calls for him to step down.

- snip - - In videos released by Gov. Kristi Noem this year, criminal investigators confronted Ravnsborg with gruesome details of the crash, including that Boever's eyeglasses were found inside Ravnsborg's vehicle. At one point, they told him: “His face was in your windshield, Jason. Think about that.”

Ravnsborg seemed unsure in the videos about how he had swerved onto the shoulder, but detectives told him bone scrapings were found on the shoulder's rumble strip.

[frogmarch]

5. His defense team is trying to say the victim

intentionally jumped out in front of the vehicle and that his death was a suicide.

So, Ravnsborg kills a man, gets charged with 3 misdemeanors (careless driving, driving out of his lane and operating a motor vehicle while on his phone) *to which he pleaded not guilty* and *could* spend 30 days in jail for each charge, plus pay a fine. That's it.

I hate republicans.

[Demovictory9]

6. how is he still atty general?

[North Shore Chicago]

7. Do these

insufferable succotash ever held responsible?

I am cheering on Karma!

[LiberatedUSA]

8. Traffic charges. Nothing but traffic charges. N/t