4.
To require that, when the testimony and expert opinions required in the first
operative paragraph have been received, the Secretariat of the Court forward them to the
other parties so that, if they consider it necessary, the representatives and the State may
submit their observations on the testimony and expert opinions in their final written
arguments.
5.
To convene the representatives, the State and the Inter-American Commission to a
public hearing to be held, during the Court’s ninety-fourth regular session, at its seat on
March 2, 2012, starting at 9 a.m., to receive their final oral arguments and final oral
observations, respectively, on the merits and eventual reparations and costs, and to receive
the testimony of the following:
A. Presumed victim proposed by the representatives
1) Yelitze Lisbeth Moreno Cova, wife of Joe Luis Castillo González, who will
testify about: (i) the work of her husband, Joe Luis Castillo González; (ii) the
events that she witnessed as a presumed victim; (iii) the supposed difficulties
suffered and harm to her private life and that of her son, and (iv) the aspects of
the investigation into the facts that she took part in or of which she is aware.
B. Witness proposed by the State
2) Elvis José Rodríguez Moreno, Eighty-third Prosecutor of the Public Prosecution
Service, who will testify on the measures taken by the Prosecutors who
intervened in the investigation into the attack on Joe Luis Castillo González.
C. Expert witnesses
a. Proposed by the representatives
3) Michael Reed Hurtado, lawyer, who will refer to: (i) the absence of exhaustive
lines of investigation at the domestic level into the death of Joe Luis Castillo
González; (ii) the need to carry out a comprehensive investigation, using “all
available evidence,” especially when crimes are committed in the context of
patterns of human rights violations or in the presence of organized crime.
b. Proposed by the State
4) Antonio Uribarrí, former Ombudsman of the state de Zulia, who will refer to
the context of violence resulting from the displacement towards Venezuela of
insurgency movements.
6.
To call upon the State to facilitate the exit from and entry into its territory of the
presumed victim deponent and the expert witnesses, if they reside or are in that country,
who have been summoned in this Order to testify at the public hearing on merits and
eventual reparations and costs, in accordance with the provisions of Article 26(1) of the
Court’s Rules of Procedure.
7.
To require the representative and the State to notify this Order to the persons they
have proposed and who have been summoned to testify, in accordance with the provisions
of Article 50(2) and 50(4) of the Rules of Procedure.
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