[o]wing to a regrettable internal administrative error when preparing [the certification requested by Mauricio Herrera Ulloa for work-related matters], it was noted that there were no entries in [his] name, whereas the contents of the certification opportunely issued to the Office of the Prosecutor General were correct. […] in these circumstances, there has been no action which could cause adverse effects to either MAURICIO HERRERA ULLOA, or to the Office of the Prosecutor General, because […] it was a case of a internal administrative error, which is very rare in this office. […] the judgment of the Criminal Court of the First Judicial Circuit of San José against MAURICIO HERRERA ULLOA was duly recorded in the files of this Registry on March 1, 2001, and the entry, according to which suspension of the execution of the judgment and decisions is ordered, in compliance with the order issued by the Inter-American Court, is dated April 26, 2001. 13. The Secretariat’s note of August 31, 2001, in which, on the instructions of the Court, it granted the Commission until September 1, 2001, to present its observations on the State’s report of August 31, 2001. 14. The Commission’s brief of September 1, 2001, in which it presented its observations on the State’s brief of August 31, 2001. In summary, it said that: a) the mere inconsistency of the State underscores the situation of insecurity and lack of legal certainty of Mauricio Herrera Ulloa and corroborates the appropriateness of the provisional measures requested by the Commission; and b) the fact that, before the Court, Costa Rica attempts to resolve the matter of the serious contradiction between two effective and binding State acts by stating that one of them was not “valid”, owing to an internal administrative error committed by the senior authority of the Judicial Record of Offenders, is, in itself, an impairment of the right to defense and due legal process of Mauricio Herrera Ulloa, established in the American Convention. 15. The order of the Court of September 7, 2001, in which it decided: 1. To call on the State of Costa Rica to adopt, without delay, all necessary measures to annul the registration of Mauricio Herrera Ulloa in the Judicial Record of Offenders until the case has been decided finally by the organs of the inter-American human rights system. 2. To call on the State of Costa Rica to suspend the order to publish the “operative paragraphs” of the condemnatory judgment delivered by the Criminal Trial Court of the First Judicial Circuit of San José on November 12, 1999, in the La Nación newspaper, and to suspend the order to establish a link in La Nación Digital between the articles in dispute and the operative paragraphs of that judgment. 3. To call on the State of Costa Rica to advise the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, within 30 days of notification of the [...] order, of the measures that it has adopted to comply with it, and on the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to present its observations on this report within 30 days of receiving it. 16. The State’s brief of October 5, 2001, in which it advised that “it had ordered that execution of the judgment delivered against Mauricio Herrera Ulloa should remain suspended until the Inter-American Court of Human Rights [had] made the

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