3 José Enrique Castro, from the Office of the Attorney General; Arnoldo Brenes, from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; and Carmen Claramunt, from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; For the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights: Pedro Nikken, Delegate; Carlos Ayala Corao, Delegate; Ariel Dulitzky, Principal Specialist with the Commission’s Secretariat; Debora Benchoam, attorney from the Commission’s Secretariat; and Fernando Guier, assistant; Witness offered by the Inter-American Commission: Mauricio Herrera Ulloa; 8. The statements made by Costa Rica and by the Inter-American Commission at that public hearing, and the testimony given by Mauricio Herrera Ulloa; 9. The May 23, 2001 Order of the Court, wherein it resolved: 1. To grant the State of Costa Rica until August 16, 2001, to submit the report referred to in the sixth and eighth considering paragraphs of this order. 2. To ratify the order of the President of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights of April 6, 2001, and, consequently, to call on the State of Costa Rica to abstain from executing any action that would alter the status quo of the matter until it has submitted the requested report and the Court can deliberate and decide on this during its next regular session; 10. The State’s August 16, 2001 report on the nature and ramifications of the Judiciary’s Record of Convicted Felons; 11. The Commission’s August 24, 2001 observations on the State’s August 16, 2001 brief; 12. The Secretariat’s August 28, 2001 note whereby, following instructions from the Court en banc. it informed the parties that: [[h]aving studied and considered [the] certifications [from the Judiciary Criminal Records Office –one supplied by the State, the other by the Commission-], the Court note[d] that the two certifications differ[ed] as to their content. It therefore request[ed] the State to clarify whether Mr. Mauricio Herrera Ulloa is or is not listed in the Judiciary’s Record of Convicted Felons. If so, the Court request[ed] that the State indicate the date on which his name was entered into that record and the implications and effects of being so listed. It also asked the State to indicate when the notation was entered ordering “suspension of execution of the judgment and orders,” “pursuant to the Order of the Inter.-American Court.” Costa Rica was given until September 1, 2001, to submit that information, but with no extensions, in order that the Court might deliberate and reach a decision on the matter at its LII regular session; 13. The Commission’s August 29, 2001 brief wherein it requested a copy of any brief the State might file in response to the Secretariat’s note of August 28, 2001, “with the understanding that […] it reserves its right to make the observations it