ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the temporal shifts between internalist and externalist accounts of the law that animate engagement. Part of chapter interest, in the particular crow kill incident focuses on entrapment itself, an event or moment in the life of the individual wild bird that seems to alter its classificatory status in law and its relationship to proximate humans. This chapter explores the role of Barry in witnessing, detection, prosecution and legal review of wildlife crime. The ethical witnessing is on behalf of nonhuman animals, but equally in some ways placed before them as a new standard of responsiveness, part of the redefined human-animal publics that Barry and the charity wish to support and embrace. The charity also highlighted the case and video footage to fundraise and this latter action suggests a prospective return to an internalist approach, to speaking legally or working with the law in mind.
