Vicente Guerrero himself was captured and executed in December 1815. Guerrero joined forces with Guadalupe Victoria and Isidoro Montes de Oca, taking the position of "Commander in Chief" of the rebel troops. In 1816, the royal government under Viceroy Apodaca sought to end the insurgency, offering amnesty. Guerrero's father carried one appeal for his son to surrender, but Guerrero refused. He remained the only major rebel leader still at large, keeping the rebellion going through an extensive campaign of guerrilla warfare. He won victories at Ajuchitán, Santa Fe, Tetela del Río, Huetamo, Tlalchapa and Cuautlotitlán, regions of southern Mexico that were very
Julio A. Garcia having tricked the JP into doing what Garcia wanted. Garcia even once pounded on the bar in front of the jury so strongly that he broke a bone in his hand. Garcia frequently took tough cases, having once defended former first assistant district attorney Ramon Villafranca on federal corruption charges. In 2004, Garcia represented the three cousins, Larry Dovalina (Laredo city manager from 2000 to 2006), Agustin Dovalina (then Laredo police chief), and Ramón H. Dovalina (Laredo Community College president from 1995 to 2007), in a $6 million libel suit against the "Laredo Morning Times" and then reporter Tricia Cortez