Reply #8: Cheney could face charges in shooting

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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/APWires/politics/D8FPULHO6.html

Cheney could face charges in shooting

By MATT CURRY

Associated Press Writer


Wednesday, February 15, 2006 - Page updated at 9:47 PM

From the Associated Press


....In a TV interview Wednesday, the vice president accepted full blame for the shooting and defended his decision not to publicly disclose the accident until the following day. He called it "one of the worst days of my life."

If Whittington recovers, Cheney could still face a felony charge of negligently causing injury to an aged person, Sharlot said. But he said such a charge would be "quite unusual" in the case of a hunting accident.

In the only other case of someone being shot by a vice president, Aaron Burr was indicted on murder charges in New York and New Jersey for killing Alexander Hamilton in a duel in 1804, but he was never tried and finished out his term in office.