South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg has been charged with three misdemeanors in connection with a vehicle-pedestrian accident in September 2020 that killed a 55 year old man from Highmore.
Hyde County Deputy State’s Attorney Emily Sovell announced the charges during a news conference this afternoon (Feb. 18, 2021) in Pierre.
Ravnsborg hit and killed Joseph Boever the night of Sept. 12, 2020, on Highway 14 west of Highmore. He called 9-1-1 right after the collision not knowing what he’d hit, but ended up thinking it may have been a deer. Ravnsborg found Boever’s body in the ditch the next morning.
This is the first time Sovell has talked publicly about the case and she says her silence was intentional.
Sovell has been criticized for taking five months to make a decision in the case.
Beadle County States Attorney Mike Moore is assisting Sovell with the case. He says he told Boever’s family about the charges this morning.
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