Convention. It should be clarified that the causes and effects that have stood in the way of the exhaustion of domestic remedies in the instant case will be analyzed, as relevant, in the report the Commission adopts on the merits, to determine whether they in fact constitute violations of the American Convention. 2. Time for submitting the petition 34. In its various communications, the State has asked the Commission to declare the case inadmissible for being time-barred, since the request was submitted to the Commission more than one year after the last judicial action domestically. The IAPA considers that the irregularities in the criminal proceeding, as well as the impunity in the case, render imply that the six-month term provided for in the Convention inapplicable. 35. Article 46(1)(b) of the Convention establishes that for it to be possible to declare the petition admissible, it must be submitted within six months from the date on which the interested person was notified of the final decision in the domestic jurisdiction. 36. Having determined in the previous section that the judgment of April 6, 2001, was not a decision that exhausted domestic remedies for the purposes of admissibility, the Commission rejects the State’s argument that the petition was time-barred. On considering that there has been unwarranted delay in the criminal investigation, the rule that it must be submitted within six months does not apply. 37. In this respect, Article 32 of the Commission’s Rules of Procedure provides that in those cases in which the exceptions to the requirement of exhaustion of domestic remedies apply, the petition must be submitted within a time that is reasonable, in the Commission’s judgment, bearing in mind the date of the alleged violation and the circumstances of each case. 38. Bearing in mind the date of the facts alleged and the situation of domestic remedies with respect to the specific facts submitted to the IACHR in the instant matter, the Commission considers that the petition in question was submitted within a reasonable time. 3. Duplicity of procedures and res judicata 39. From the record it does not appear that the complaint submitted is pending before another international procedure, nor has the 9