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By Devilstower
02/16/2006 04:59:35 PM EST

Looks like there's one less grand jury in Cheney's future.
The Kenedy County Sheriff's Department today cleared Vice President Dick Cheney in the shooting mishap that injured an Austin lawyer, calling it an accident.

Funny, when other people have accidental shootings, it tends to go a lot less smoothly.

Tacoma 18-Year-old gets 9-year sentence in apparently accidental shooting death

Granted, in that case a death was involved, but across the country, a good percentage of those involved in accidental shootings find themselves headed for court.  Even when there's no death involved.  Even when they were hunting.

If you think the law looks the other way when people are out hunting, you're thinking wrong.
Thirty-one-year-old Mark Anthony Hall was charged last November after he accidentally shot 23-year-old Chris Ryman while the two were deer hunting in Fishers Hill. The jury recommended that Hall serve nine months in the Shenandoah County Jail and be fined $2,500.

But surely if it's hunting, and it's not a death, nobody's going in trouble for that, right?  wrong.

Isidro Olivera-Zapien was being held in the Crook County Jail in lieu of $7,500 bail. He faces accusations of negligent wounding and fourth-degree assault, the patrol said in a news release.

So Cheney can go back to worrying about Fitz.  That's a luxury not shared by most people who manage to shoot another human being.  It's just a good thing that he shot someone in a state that's so notoriously lax on law enforcement.


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The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department earlier this week blamed Cheney for the shooting, saying it was his responsibility to know where the other hunters were before he shot. Cheney and Whittington also did not have the $7 stamp on their hunting licenses needed to hunt quail legally in Texas.

Sounds likes the Parks Department is a little less taken with the veep.  The sheriff, who didn't interview anyone till Sunday, included this note in his report.

"Mr. Cheney told me the reason Harry Whittington sustained the injures to his face and upper body was that Mr. Whittington was standing on ground that was lower than the one he was standing on. Mr. Cheney told me if Mr. Whittington was on the same ground level the injuries might have been lower on Mr. Whittington's body," he said.
 Sounds like Mr. Whitting may be glad he was standing in a ditch.

by Devilstower on 02/16/2006 05:05:15 PM EST

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