4 discrepancy in the application was due to a “typing” error and that page 2, paragraph 6, should read “Article 22.” 17. On August 16, 2002, having requested an extension, which the President granted, the State appointed Marcos Kohn Gallardo as agent and Mario Sandoval as deputy agent, and advised that it had appointed Emilio Camacho as judge ad hoc. 18. On September 9, 2002, CEJIL submitted its brief with requests, arguments and evidence, having requested two extensions, which the President granted. In this brief, CEJIL indicated that, in addition to the articles included in the Commission’s application (supra para. 2), the State had violated Article 2 (Domestic Legal Effects) of the American Convention. 19. On September 10 and 16, 2002, on the instructions of the President, the Secretariat advised the Commission and the State, respectively, that they had until October 7, 2002, to present their comments on the brief with requests and arguments. 20. On November 15, 2002, the Commission presented its comments on the brief with requests and arguments (supra paras. 18 and 19). 21. On November 15, 2002, the State forwarded a brief with its answer to the application and its comments on the representatives’ brief with requests and arguments (supra paras. 14 and 19), having requested an extension, which the President granted. On November 22, 2002, the State presented the original of this brief and its respective attachments. 22. On January 13, 2003, CEJIL submitted a brief with information about the existence of “new facts” and, as an attachment, forwarded a copy of Decision and Judgment No. 1362 handed down by the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice of Paraguay on December 11, 2002, in relation to an appeal for review filed by the alleged victim. 23. On February 17, 2003, the State presented a brief, to which it attached an authenticated copy of the Decision and Judgment forwarded by the representatives on January 13, 2003 (supra para. 22), and requested “that this document should be admitted as evidence arising from [a] supervening fact.” 24. On January 9, 2004, the Commission advised that it had appointed Ignacio Álvarez and Lilly Ching as legal advisers, in substitution for Ariel Dulitzky (supra para. 13). 25. On January 12, 2004, the State presented a brief in which it advised that Marcos Kohn Gallardo had resigned as its agent, and that future communications should be addressed to the deputy agent, until a new agent had been appointed. 26. On January 27, 2004, the State appointed César Manuel Royg Arriola as the new agent in the case. 27. On February 19, 2004, the Asociación por los Derechos Civiles (ADC) [Civil Rights Association] submitted an amicus curiae brief.