Digging Up Billy the Kid’s Mother

This is a unique moment in jurisprudence where law, history, legend, myth and modern criminology come simultaneously to the forefront in a single proceeding.” Billy the Kid’s attorneys are speaking for him in a New Mexico court of law. That a man dead 123 years even has attorneys—ones appointed by New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, no less—gives a powerful clue how consumed the 47th state has become over this case. Attorneys Bill Robins and David Sanoval have joined a lawsuit