Demetrio Sodi Guergué

Demetrio Sodi Guergué Antuñana (Spanish pronunciation: [deˈmetɾjo ˈsoði ɣeɾˈɣe antuˈɲana]; October 18, 1866 – October 29, 1934) was a Mexican journalist, writer, jurist and politician who served as the President of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation from 1908 to 1910, and as Secretary of Justice during the presidency of Porfirio Díaz from March to May 1911.

[1]: 6 He studied at the Institute of Sciences and Arts of Oaxaca where he was a student of Félix Romero, who years later would go on to become president of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation.

[1]: 7 Due to the influences exerted by being known to Díaz and Romero, Sodi soon agreed to the position of prosecutor in a district court in Colima.

[1]: 11  When Francisco I. Madero assumed the presidency, he was offered the position of Secretary of Justice, which he refused, arguing that the most consistent thing would be for him to reject it due to his past as a Porfirista official.

His most famous defense was in the trial against José de León Toral, accused of perpetrating the murder of Álvaro Obregón and who was finally sentenced to death when Sodi denounced in his allegations violations of due process and following hearings mired in interventions and decrying.