367:, (31 NY3d 1054 ), Fahey concurred in the Court’s decision to deny an animal rights group’s motion for leave to appeal in a habeas corpus case brought on behalf of two confined chimpanzees, writing separately to explain: “The issue whether a nonhuman animal has a fundamental right to liberty protected by the writ of habeas corpus is profound and far-reaching. It speaks to our relationship with all the life around us. Ultimately, we will not be able to ignore it. While it may be arguable that a chimpanzee is not a 'person,' there is no doubt that it is not merely a thing.”
332:(30 NY3d 521 ), Fahey wrote that because of the high error rate of eyewitness identifications, a trial court must caution a jury about the potential fallibility of an identification of a defendant by a person of a different race when the defendant asks for such an instruction.
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