Overview
- On October 9, Daniel García Rodríguez asked Supreme Court President Hugo Aguilar Ortiz to disqualify ministers María Estela Ríos González and Yasmín Esquivel Mossa from participating in cases tied to automatic preventive detention.
- His lawyer argues Estela Ríos urged the Court in 2022, while serving as the presidency’s legal counsel, to preserve automatic preventive detention, which they say constitutes prejudgment.
- The filing also cites Yasmín Esquivel’s public remarks at the 2022 Guadalajara Book Fair about García and co-defendant Reyes Alpízar as evidence of bias, noting an amparo tied to García is assigned to her.
- García requested a public hearing to reactivate the Court’s discussion on compliance with the Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruling that found Mexico’s automatic preventive detention incompatible with the convention.
- He remains free while pursuing an amparo to overturn a 35-year sentence ratified in March 2023, and his legal team urges a nationwide review of roughly 40,000 preventive-detention cases.