Pedro Miguel Vera Vera. Also addressed alleged obstacles to carrying out these measures. c) Hans Petter Hougen and Önder Özkalipci. Expert witnesses. Doctors in Medical Science and Forensic Medicine, respectively. Joint expert witness report ordered ex officio by the Tribunal.9 Addressed the supposed medical status of Pedro Miguel Vera Vera and the consequences of the alleged lack of access to medical care for the 10 days after he was shot until the moment of his death. d) Manuel Ramiro Aguilar Torres. Expert witness. Attorney. Expert witness report ordered ex officio by the Tribunal.10 Addressed the criminal laws and criminal procedure applicable to the facts of this case, including the possible criminal and administrative investigations that could have been launched to determine the corresponding responsibility. e) Aída Beatriz Villarreal Tobar. Expert witness. Social Worker. Expert report presented by the representative. Addressed the practices in Ecuadorian prisons for evaluating the moment in which individuals under detention who are sick or wounded must be checked into public hospitals. 21. With regard to the evidence given during the public hearing, the Court heard the testimony of: a) Francisca Mercedes Vera Valdez. Alleged victim. Mother of Pedro Miguel Vera Vera. Testimony offered by the representative. Addressed the alleged actions taken so that medical attention might be provided to her son, as well as the effects she suffered as a consequence of the facts in this case. B. Admission of the evidence 22. In this case, as in others, the Court accepts the evidentiary value of the documents presented by the parties at the proper procedural moment that were not contested or opposed, and whose authenticity was not questioned.11 The documents that the Tribunal requested of the State as evidence to facilitate adjudication (supra para. 9 and infra para. 24) are incorporated into the body of evidence under Article 58 of the Rules of Procedure. 9 Cf. Case of Vera Vera V. Ecuador. Order of the President of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights of December 23, 2010, Operative Paragraph two. 10 Cf. Case of Vera Vera V. Ecuador, supra note 9, Operative Paragraph two. 11 Cf. Case of Velásquez Rodríguez V. Honduras. Merits. Judgment of July 29, 1988. Series C No. 1, para. 140; Case of Cabrera García and Montiel Flores V. México, supra note 7, para. 27, and Case of Abrill Alosilla V. Perú, supra note 7, para. 38. 10

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