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“enter[ed] into the room of Gerardo Zamudio-Aldaba and [Juana]
Patricia Martín-del-Campo, who were lying on their bed, and
immediately start[ed] to stab several times the body of his brother-inlaw […], using, on each of his hands, the knives that he had taken
from the kitchen […] and at that time his sister Juana Patricia woke up
[…] and he also start[ed] to stab her body several times […] and once
he made sure that they were dead […] he start[ed] to plan how to
simulate a burglary and a kidnapping with the idea of giving the
impression that [he…did not] participate in those events.”
58.1.7
On May 30, 1992 7 , at 19:30 hours, Mr. Jesús LópezSánchez, an expert of the Forensic Medicine Service of the Directorate
General of Technical Services, under the Distrito Federal Attorney
General’s Office, clinically examined Mr. Alfonso Martín-del-Campo,
thereby having found that his injuries, as well as his physical condition
were, at the time of the examination, the same as indicated after the
clinical examination performed previously by him that same day.
58.1.8
On May 30, 1992, at 21:20 hours, Mr. Antonio VargasLacunas and Ms. Beatriz Minor-Morales, photography and criminology
experts, respectively, performed the task of reconstruction of the
events, with the participation, among others, of Mr. Alfonso Martíndel-Campo, at the request of the Head of the Special Homicide
Prosecutors’ Department of the Tenth Investigation Agency.
58.1.9
On May 31, 1992, Mr. Guillermo León-González, an expert
psychiatrist of the Forensic Psychiatry Service of the General
Directorate of Tecnical Services under the Distrito Federal Attorney
General’s Office, examined Mr. Alfonso Martín-del-Campo to determine
the status of his mental health, and concluded that he “[did not] show
at th[at] time signs of any mental disorder; he h[ad] the capacity to
want and to understand.”
58.1.10 On June 01, 1992, the Prosecutorial Agency submitted an
“inquiry order with arrest of suspect” to the Fifty-fifth Penal Judge of
the Distrito Federal upon verification that there were “sufficient
elements to accuse Alfonso Martín-del-Campo.” The Prosecutorial
Agency indicated that “since the […] case [was] evidently urgent […]
and there was no judicial authority at hand to issue the corresponding
order to arrest, [on May 30, 1992] it proceed[ed] to arrest [Mr.
Martín-del-Campo, in conformity] with the provisions in Article[s] 16,
and 132, 266 and 268 of the Penal Procedural Code for the Distrito
Federal.”
58.1.11 That same day Mr. Alfonso Martín-del-Campo was brought
before the Fifty-fifth Penal Judge of the Distrito Federal, and his
deposition before the Prosecutorial Agency was read to him,
whereupon the alleged victim stated that he totally den[ied] it since he
had been subjected to physical pressure by the judicial officials.” At
the request of the defence, the Court Decision Secretary of this court
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supra note 6.