Investigation Unit asked the Hospital for a copy of the victim’s medical record and made a
police technical inspection of the corpse.340 The Unit also asked for the logbook and the
names of the personnel on duty at the Barbacoas Police Station on January 9, 2005, a
request that was repeated subsequently (infra para. 227).341
226. On January 22, 2005, the results of the autopsy performed on January 20, 2005,
were provided.342 On January 25, 2005, the Twentieth Prosecutor requested a copy of the
reports and records corresponding to the last three months “that establish how the measure
of protection for […] the members of the Barrios family is being complied with,”343 and the
Investigation Unit carried out a technical inspection of the crime scene, and took
photographs.344 On January 26, 2005, interviews were conducted with Génesys Carolina
Martinez, Maritza Barrios, who stated that her son had previously denounced threats from
police officials, and three eyewitnesses.345
227. Between January and September 2005, the Prosecutor and the Investigation Unit
requested that certain procedures be conducted, reiterated some that had been requested
previously,346 and others were carried out.347 In addition, on October 4, 2005, the Twentieth
340
Cf. Note No. 9700-064-0844 of the Investigation Unit of January 20, 2005 (file of attachments to the
answering brief, tome I, attachment 3, folio 4613); Record of proceedings of the Investigation Unit of January 20,
2005 (file of attachments to the answering brief, tome I, attachment 3, folios 4614 to 4616), and Police technical
inspection No. 140 of the Investigation Unit of January 20, 2005 (file of attachments to the answering brief, tome
I, attachment 3, folios 4617 and 4618).
341
Cf. Notes No. 9700-064-0843 and No. 9700-064 1681 of the Scientific Investigation Unit of January 20
and February 1, 2005 (file of attachments to the answer to the application, tome I, attachment 3, folios 4620 and
4653).
342
Cf. Result of the autopsy procedure of the Investigation Unit of January 22, 2005 (file of attachments to
the answering brief, tome I, attachment 3, folios 4621 and 4622).
343
Cf. Note No. 05-F20-0134-05 of the Twentieth Prosecutor of January 25, 2005 (file of attachments to the
answer to the application, tome I, attachment 3, folio 4623).
344
Cf. Record of the proceedings of the Forensic and Scientific Crime Investigation Unit of January 25, 2005
(file of attachments to the answer to the application, tome I, attachment 3, folio 4624), and Police technical
inspection No. 148 of the Forensic and Scientific Crime Investigation Unit of January 25, 2005 (file of attachments
to the answer to the application, tome I, attachment 3, folios 4625 to 4636).
345
Cf. Record of interview with Génesys Carolina Martínez on January 26, 2005, supra note 100, folios 3579
to 3581; Record of interview with Maritza Barrios on January 26, 2005, supra note 104, folios 4650 to 4652, and
Record of interview with Jean Carlos Martinez Arcile, Jorge Cerezo Rangel and Jesús Eduardo Escobar Martínez on
January 26, 2005 (file of attachments to the Commission’s Report No. 11/10, attachments 1 to 5, tome II, folios
3587 to 3592).
346
These procedures included: (a) medical history; (b) forensic blood tests; (c) forwarding of evidence
collected at the crime scene on January 25, 2005, to the microanalysis laboratory; (d) reiteration of the request
for ballistic trajectory, planimetric survey and forensic blood tests; (e) repetition of request for police records, logs,
identification of police agents, and copies of firearms records; (f) request for criminal records of the deceased,
reiterated on subsequent occasions; (g) localization and interview of the individuals mentioned by witnesses in
their statements; (h) forensic examination of evidence collected on January 25, 2005. Cf. Notes of the Twentieth
Prosecutor and of the Investigation Unit No. 9700-064-1681, No. 970-064-1210, No. 9700-064-1211, No. 9700064-1282, No. 9700-064-1280, No. 05-F20-0636-05, 05-F20-0637-05, 05-F20-0639-05, 05-F20-0640-05, 05-F200644-05, 05-F20-0637-05, 05-F20-0639-05, 05-F20-0640-05, 05-F20-0940-05, 05-F20-1403-05, 05-F20-140105, 05-F20-1402-05, 05-F20-1404-05, 05-F20-1405-05 of January 26, February 1, April 6, May 30 and August 22,
2005 (file of attachments to the answering brief, tome I, attachment 3, folios 4653 to 4667, 4683 and 4688 to
4692).
347
Specifically: (a) Forensic examination and ballistic comparison of a cartridge shell; (b) Report on ballistic
trajectory, which concluded, inter alia, that no relationship could be determined between the victim and the
perpetrator owing to discrepancy of the autopsy procedure in relation to the exit wound of one of the bullets; (c)
Memorandum on planimetric survey, and forwarding of copies of the agenda and logs of the Barbacoas Police
Station and the armory register for January 9 and 10, 2005, cf. Reports No. 9700-064-DC-676.05 and No. 9700064-DC-550.05 and Memorandum No. 9700-064-DC-0549.05 of the Investigation Unit of February 5, March 10 and
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