(Reuters) – South Dakota legislators will decide Tuesday whether they want to impeach their attorney general. He struck and killed a pedestrian on his way home from a Republican Party event in 2020.

The state’s Republican-controlled House of Representatives will decide if the conduct of Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg involved impeachable offenses during and after the incident that claimed the life of Joseph Boever, 55.

Kristi Noem (also a Republican) had asked Ravnsborg to resign following the crash.

Ravnsborg sent two letters to lawmakers prior to Tuesday’s proceedings. He apologized for the incident, and stated that an impeachment could set a dangerous precedent.

His office was conducting multiple investigations into Noem’s activities and claiming that she “politically manipulated” the event.

To impeach Ravnsborg, the House must have a simple majority (36 members) Ravnsborg will have to temporarily step down if the House impeaches him. The Senate has to wait at most 20 days before allowing him to be tried. To remove Ravnsborg from office, the 35-member Republican-led Senate will need 24 votes.

Ravnsborg drove home from a fundraiser in September 2020 when he ran into Boever. Boever was just 50 miles away from Pierre on a Highway in Highmore, South Dakota.

Ravnsborg stated to police that he was convinced he had hit a deer and not a human until he went back to the spot the next day to see the victim’s corpse in a ditch along the road.

State authorities released toxicology results that did not show impairment.

Ravnsborg was convicted of two misdemeanors, illegal lane changing and driving while using a mobile phone. Ravnsborg was facing jail for each of the charges, but the judge who supervised the case sentenced him to $1,000 in payment and five years’ public service.