possibility of developing their persona and realizing their life plans. Lastly, the expert
witness will refer to the recommended therapies to provide the presumed victims
with a process of rehabilitation of their mental health that enables them to recover to
the greatest extent possible from the extreme living conditions to which they have
been exposed since childhood.
7) Liliana Gimol Pinto, who will provide an expert opinion on: the standards of
international human rights law for juvenile criminal justice, contrasting them with the
laws in force in Argentina, in particular, the domestic laws that are invoked as
grounds for imposing life sentences on minors. Ms. Pinto will also refer to the State’s
obligations concerning the living conditions to which minors deprived of their liberty
are entitled.
C)
Experts proposed by the Inter-American Commission:
8) Alberto Bovino, who will provide an expert opinion on: the scope of the right
established in Article 8(2)(h) of the American Convention; particularly on the
exclusion a priori of the possibility of reviewing matters of fact or evidence owing to
the apparent conflict between the principles of certain criminal procedural systems
and the right to appeal a judgment.
9) Lawrence O. Gostin, who will provide an expert opinion on: the international
human rights standards applicable with regard to mental health in detention centers,
and the State’s obligations arising from these standards.
2.
To require the State and the representative, if they deem pertinent, to forward any
questions they consider it relevant to submit, through the Inter-American Court, to the
presumed victims and expert witnesses indicated in the first operative paragraph of this
Order. Furthermore, to require the Inter-American Commission to forward the questions it
deems pertinent to pose to expert witness Liliana Gimol Pinto, in the terms of considering
paragraph 17 of this Order. The questions of the representative, the State, and the InterAmerican Commission must be submitted before the non-extendible time limit that expires
on August 8, 2012. The statements required in the first operative paragraph must be
submitted by the parties and the Inter-American Commission by August 24, 2012, at the
latest.
3.
To require the representative and the Inter-American Commission to coordinate and
take the necessary measures so that, when the questions of the representative, the State
and the Inter-American Commission, respectively, have been received, the deponents and
the proposed expert witnesses include the corresponding answers in their statements and
expert opinions provided by affidavit, in accordance with considering paragraph 20 of this
Order.
4.
To ensure that, when the statements and expert opinions required in the first
operative paragraph have been received, the Secretariat of the Inter-American Court
forwards them to the Inter-American Commission, the representative, and the State. If the
representative and the State deem necessary, they can submit their observations to the
said statements and expert opinions together with their final written arguments at the
latest.
5.
To convene the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the representative,
and the Argentine Republic to a public hearing to be held during the Court’s ninety-sixth
regular session, which will take place at its seat in San José, Costa Rica, on August 30,
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