12. Helpful evidence and information. – On February 16, 2022, based on Article 58(b) of the Rules of Procedure and as required by the judges during the public hearing, the State was asked to present helpful documents and information.6 The State responded to the request by presenting its final written arguments. 13. Final written arguments and observations. – On March 11, 2022, the Commission, the State, and the representatives, respectively, submitted their final written observations and their final written arguments. Likewise, the State sent on various annexes, including certain documents, in response to the request dated February 16, 2022.7 14. Observations on the annexes to the final arguments and on the request for helpful evidence and information. – On March 24, 2022, the Commission mentioned that it had no observations in this regard. The representative did not comment on the matter. 15. The Court deliberated on this Judgment on May 11, 2022. III JURISDICTION 16. The Court has jurisdiction to hear this case pursuant to Article 62(3) of the American Convention, because Ecuador has been a State Party to said Convention since December 28, 1977 and accepted the contentious jurisdiction of the Court on July 24, 1984. IV PRELIMINARY OBJECTION 17. In instant case, the State filed a preliminary objection that it called “lack of jurisdiction regarding property-related claims, based on the factual framework determined by the C[omission].” a. Arguments of the parties and the Commission 18. The State argued that, in their pleadings and motions brief, the representatives invoked claims related to the destruction of the property of Ms. Shirley Lourdes Quiñonez Bone, specifically, the boat “known as R[odach].” It pointed out that these claims constitute “new of Human Rights; Carlos Espín Arias, National Deputy Director of Human Rights, and Juan Carlos Álvarez, Human Rights Litigation Lawyer. 6 Here, the State was requested to provide the following: a) the Constitution of Ecuador and applicable legislation in matters of military criminal jurisdiction that was in force at the time of the facts; b) if applicable, the text of regulations that were in force to replace the regulations referred to in the previous paragraph, indicating the effective date; c) information on the existence, in any of the criminal proceedings processed before the military jurisdiction or before the ordinary jurisdiction, of the plan or map showing the specific place where the shots hit the boat in which they were sailing had been identified the Casierra Quiñonez brothers on the day of the events, requesting that, if applicable, the respective document be provided, and d) the complete files of cases No. 3-99, in charge of the Military Criminal Court of the Third Naval Zone, and 7-2000, by the Fifth Criminal Court of Atacames and Muisne. 7 The State submitted the following documents: a) in response to the request made on February 16, 2022: i) preliminary investigation file No. 080101816100361, by the Human Rights and Citizen Participation Directorate of the State Attorney General's Office; ii) Political Constitution of the Republic of Ecuador, published on August 11, 1998, and repealed by the Constitution of the Republic of Ecuador of 2008; iii) text of the Organic Law of the Armed Forces, published on September 28, 1990, and repealed by Law No. 74, published on January 19, 2007; iv) text of the Organic Law of the Justice Service of the Armed Forces, published on November 0, 1961 and repealed by Law No. 0, published on March 9, 2009; v) text of the Military Criminal Code, published on November 6, 1961, and repealed by Law No. 0, published on May 19, 2010, and vi) text of the Military Criminal Procedure Code, published on November 6, 1961 and repealed by Law No. 0, published on March 9, 2009, and b) other than the aforementioned requirement: report on health care provided to Andrés Alejandro Casierra Quiñonez, Sebastián Darlin Casierra Quiñonez and María Ingracia Quiñonez Bone, “in the establishments of the public health network m of District 08D03 from 2016 to the present date,” signed by the respective Health District authorities on February 25, 2022. 6