19 58.1.22 On August 10, 1998, the Inter-American Commission requested Mr. Alfonso Martín-del-Campo to submit additional information on admissibility requirements. 58.1.23 On December 16, 1998, Mexico recognised the Court’s contentious jurisdiction. 58.1.24 On April 05, 1999, Mr. Martín-del-Campo filed a recognition of innocence remedy with the Seventeenth Penal Section of the Distrito Federal Superior Court, in conformity with Article 614(2) of the Penal Procedural Code for the Distrito Federal. 58.1.25 On April 29, 1999, the Seventeenth Penal Section of the Distrito Federal Superior Court declared the recognition of innocence action groundless. Said Court felt that Mr. Martín-del-Campo’s assertion that the October 14, 1994, decision of the Internal Comptroller’s department of the Distrito Federal Office of the Attorney General, whereby an administrative sanction was imposed against officer Sotero Galván-Gutiérrez “invalidates the confessional evidence on which the sentence delivered against him was founded” was not correct, since the Eighth Section of the Distrito Federal Superior Court, in admitting “the evidence of the two different cases of aggravated homicide and [Mr.] Alfonso Martín-del-Campo’s penal responsibility […] in the commission of said homicides, did not base itself solely on the deposition of the accused at the Prosecutorial Agency, but also on such circumstantial evidence as Article 261 of the Distrito Federal Penal Procedural Code refers to[.] The evidence taken into account by the Eighth Section provided the elements which constituted the chain of events that became the entire circumstantial evidence on which the sentence was based.” Furthermore, the Seventeenth Penal Section “primarily stressed the admission of responsibility itself, by the accused Alfonso Martín-del-Campo before the Prosecutorial Agency […] in respect of the principle of prosecutorial immediacy, since this was done with remarkable immediacy to the events, without the time required to have been briefed or to have reflected on the matter.” 58.1.26 On October 08 and 29, 1999, Mr. Alfonso Martín-delCampo, CEJIL, ACAT, and the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, respectively, filed a complaint with the Inter-American Commission. 58.1.27 On November 04, 1999, the Inter-American Commission transmitted to the State, under case number, 12.228, the pertinent sections of the petitioners’ briefs. 58.1.28 On February 02, 2000, the State submitted its brief of observations to the Commission’s November 04, 1999, communication. 58.1.29 On October 11, 2000, during its 108th Regular Session, the Inter-American Commission held a public hearing where the petitioners and the State’s representatives appeared.