Ravnsborg charged with three misdemeanors:
South Dakota AG who hit, killed pedestrian with car charged with misdemeanors
Pretty much a whitewash. The news conference was bad. They couldn't say why he was distracted, but went out of their way to say he was off the phone for a minute before impact. And that they were sure he slowed down in the 45 mph zone prior to accelerating again at the crash scene. Things they couldn't be sure of they were sure of. What kind of telemetry did they have? Why Ravnsborg didn't see Boever, what he was doing, and why him hitting the windshield did not give him pause? No attempt at answers. I get that that there is no negligent homicide law in SD, but failing to render aid and leaving the scene of an accident is chargeable. And then there are the unexamined actions of the sheriff. The attorney made a show of not being able to impanel a grand jury since there is no negligent homicide law, and the facts he did not think supported it, but a grand jury could have gone in different ways and actually thoroughly looked at this case and charged or not as the facts actually warranted. They went out of their way to drag this out and keep it at the misdemeanor level to help protect the AG in the likely event of civil suits--now there is six months and a bad investigation for personal injury attorneys to parse through. Lots of questions the state did not want to answer IMHO. Lying about where he hit Boever is consciousness of guilt too. Lots to unpack. . ..
