4 to investigate and charge, does not exclude the possibility that the “Public Attorneys institution” adopt general standards to construe the statutory rules they must apply (by means of agreements receiving different denominations; internal administrative acts, which should be made public as a legal certainty imperative) so that they can take action in the proceedings as one, in an institutional manner, avoiding inconsistency and divergence. None of the foregoing implies that the authorities empowered to establish such general construction standards secundum legem (which, in the long run, are subject to assessment by the court, whose construction of statute is final), may determine beforehand that the institution act, in the course of the prosecution, contra legem. 19. For the reasons hereinbefore stated, I fully subscribe the observation by the Inter-American Court in el paragraph 165 of the judgment to which I append the instant opinion, when it upholds that “prosecutors, [that is the Public Attorneys acting in criminal proceedings] must watch for the law to be correctly applied and seek the truth of the facts as they are, acting professionally, loyally and in good faith, considering both the elements that prove the existence of the crime and the participation of the person charged with such crime, as well as the elements that may extinguish or extenuate the criminal responsibility of the accused”. Sergio García Ramírez Judge Pablo Saavedra - Alessandri Secretary