income and any expenses incurred during the unpaid years, and takes into consideration the total income per year which, as time passes between 2005 and 2011, decreases by a percentage of approximately 50%. 276 247. The Court makes the calculation based on the evidence provided, and the request by the victims’ representatives that upon setting the amount to be paid to each of the judges, this should be no less than the amount stated on the Certificate of Settlement prepared by the State in compliance with Report 50 of the Commission, and in the documentary evidence included in the file regarding the income of each of the judges, the settlement made by the State and the time elapsed since their dismissal and up until October 20, 2008. The certificates of settlement contain calculations made annually. Since it is appropriate to make the calculation up to October 20, 2008 (supra para. 239), the Court shall determine the amount payable up to said date using the rule of three, bearing in mind the amount allocated for 2008 and which would really correspond until October 20 of that same year. Given that 2008 was a leap year, the calculation would correspond to 294 days out of 366 days (i.e. from January 1, 2008 to October 20, 2008) with respect the judges who have a certificate of settlement. 248. Accordingly, the Court sets the sum of US$ 409,985.61 (four hundred and nine thousand, nine hundred and eighty-five dollars of the United States of America and sixtyone cents) 277 for pecuniary damage for loss of earnings plus social benefits not received until 2008, in favor of each of the following 19 victims, namely Alfonso Ernesto Albán Gomes, José Santiago Andrade Ubidia, José Julio Benítez Astudillo, Eduardo Enrique Brito Mieles, Nicolás Castro Patiño, Lucio Teodoro Coello Vázquez, Galo Miguel Galarza Paz, Luis Alberto Heredia Moreno, Ángel Ignacio Lescano Fiallo, Galo Alonso Pico Mantilla, Hernán Gonzalo Quevedo Terán, Jorge Enrique Ramírez Álvarez, Jaime Gonzalo Velasco Dávila, Miguel Elías Villacís Gómez, Gonzalo Augusto Zambrano Palacios, Jorge Aurelio Andrade Lara, Armando Bermeo Castillo, Naum Clotary Salinas Montaño and Estuardo Agustín Hurtado Larrea, based on the total overall sum stated on the Certificates of Settlement for the years 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 (until October 20). 249. As noted previously, not all the judges received the same salary (supra para. 245), for which reason the amounts set for pecuniary damages differ. Thus, the Court sets the following amounts for pecuniary damage, calculated on the basis of the total overall sum provided in the Certificates of Settlement for the years 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 (until October 20): a) For Judge Arturo Javier Donoso Castellón, the Court sets the sum of US$ 334,608.38 (three hundred and thirty-four thousand six hundred and eight dollars of the United States of America and thirty-eight cents ); b) For Judge Armando José Ramón Serrano Puig, the Court sets the sum of US$ 371,261.73 (three hundred and seventy-one thousand, two hundred and sixty-one dollars of the United States of America and seventy-three cents ) c) For Judge Hugo Quintana Coello, the Court sets the sum of US$ 442,056.39 (four hundred and forty-two thousand and fifty-six dollars of the United States of America and thirty-nine cents ), and 276 The decrease, according to the representatives of the alleged victims, may be based on the fact that in 2008 the Legislative Commission decreed that no public official could earn more than the President of the Republic. Cf. Final written arguments of the representatives (Merits file, volume IV, page 1912). 277 This sum was the total settlement to be received by the 19 Judges according to the Certificates of Settlement prepared by the Transition Council of the Judiciary on August 29, 2011, until 2008 71