Word: demetrios
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said Toral's lawyer, famed and feline Demetrio Sodi: "I wanted my client to be convicted. Had he been acquitted no power on earth could have prevented a lynching. We shall appeal to the Supreme Court. That august tribunal will uphold my contention that the crime was purely political and is therefore punishable by a sentence of not more than 20 years imprisonment...
Cheers and much pelting of flowers by the populace greeted the arrival of Mexico's most popular criminal lawyer, peerless Demetrio Sodi. In defense of the self confessed assassin Lawyer Sodi argued that his crime was purely political, and as such is punishable by imprisonment only...
Came then the smash-sensation. "My client has been foully tortured," said Demetrio Sodi in a low tense voice. "When he revealed to me what the police had done, I was as nauseated as though I were beholding Doré's depiction of the infernal cycles of Dante's Inferno! I will put my client on the stand...
...reason is this: Recently Colonel Manuel Demetrio Torres, known as Chaparreras, was taken by U. S. officials in Laredo, Tex., and transferred across the Rio Grande to the Mexican authorities. He had fought with the Huertistas against Obregon and Calles. He was handed over to the Mexican Government, by order of the U. S. Department of Labor through its immigration officials, because it was alleged he was illegally resident in the U. S. Before he was handed over, the Mexican Consul at Laredo had given assurances that he would not be treated as a political prisoner. The immigration authorities also...
...During the early hours of this morning, on the military parade grounds, Manuel Demetrio Torres was shot to death in pursuance of telegraphic instructions of the Minister of War to the military authorities of Torreon, Coahuila...