4. Requests of the Inter-American Commission. - Based on the foregoing, the Commission asked the Court to declare the international responsibility of the State for the same violations included in its Merits Report (supra para. 2.c). The Commission asked the Court to order the State to implement reparation measures, which are detailed and analyzed in Chapter IX of this Judgment. II PROCEEDINGS BEFORE THE COURT 5. Appointment of Inter-American Public Defenders - By means of a note of March 9, 2018, the Registrar requested the General Coordinator of the Inter-American Association of Public Defender's (AIDEF) to appoint an inter-American public defender to represent the alleged victims. On March 20, 2018, the General Coordinator of said Association informed the Inter-American Court of the appointment of two inter-American public defenders, Dr. Rivana Barreto Ricarte de Oliveira and Dr. Yanela Romero de Pimentel (hereinafter, in indistinct reference to the persons who acted in such capacity, "inter-American public defenders" or "the representatives"). 6. Notification to the representatives and the State. - The submission of the case by the Commission was notified by the Court to the representatives of the alleged victims on April 26, 2018, and to the State on April 4, 2018. 7. Brief with pleadings, motions and evidence. - On June 25, 2018, the representatives of the alleged victims submitted to the Court their brief of pleadings, motions and evidence (hereinafter "pleadings and motions brief" or "ESAP"). The representatives substantially concurred with the allegations made by the Commission and asked the Court to declare the international responsibility of the State for the violation of the same articles alleged by the Commission and, additionally, the violation of Article 8(2)(b), in relation to Article 1(1) of the American Convention to the detriment of Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Revolorio, Miguel Ángel López Calo and Aníbal Archila Pérez. In addition, the alleged victims requested, through their representatives, to avail themselves of the Inter-American Court's Victims’ Legal Assistance Fund (hereinafter "the Court's Assistance Fund" or the "Fund"). Finally, they requested the Court to order the State to adopt various measures of reparation and to reimburse costs and expenses. 8. Answering brief. - On September 27, 2018, the State filed before the Court its brief in response to the submission and report on admissibility and merits of the Inter-American Commission and to the brief of pleadings, motions and evidence of the representatives (hereinafter "answering brief"). In this brief, the State filed a preliminary objection of res judicata, objected to the alleged violations and to the requests for reparation measures. 9. Victims' Legal Assistance Fund. - A communication from the Registrar of the Court dated January 11, 2019, informed that the Court's Victims' Legal Assistance Fund would be implemented. 10. Public hearing. - By Order of February 15, 2019,4 the President summoned the State, the representatives and the Inter-American Commission to a public hearing to receive their final oral arguments and observations on the preliminary objection and possible merits, reparations and costs, as well as to receive the testimony of one alleged victim proposed by the representatives. The President also ordered the incorporation into the case file of the expert opinion rendered by Parvais Jabbar and Edward Fitzgerald, in the Martínez Coronado, Girón et al. and Ruiz Fuentes et al. v. Case of Rodríguez Revolorio et al. v. Guatemala. Summons to Hearing. Order of the President of the Inter-American Court of February 15, 2017. Available at: http://www.corteidh.or.cr/docs/asuntos/rodriguez_revolorio_15_02_19.pdf 4 5