6 representatives in their brief of requests and arguments. During the public hearing, the State submitted a brief in which it made a detailed reference to its acknowledgment of international responsibility. 27. On May 18 and 19, 2006, the Commission and the representatives submitted their final written arguments, respectively. The State did not submit any final arguments whatsoever. 28. On May 25, 2006, the Secretariat, following instructions of the President of the Court, requested the representatives to submit evidence to facilitate the adjudication of the case; said representatives after an extension had been granted, submitted part of such evidence on June 13, 2006. On even date, the Secretariat requested the representatives to complete the submission of the remaining evidence to facilitate the adjudication of the case and also requested the State to submit its evidence to facilitate the adjudication of the case. On June 13 and 21, 2006, the representatives, after having been granted an extension, filed part of the requested evidence. V PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS 29. In the application filed, the Inter-American Commission included a list of 37 alleged victims of the events dealt with in the instant case. Such list coincides with that included in its report about the admissibility and merits (supra para. 8). In their brief of requests and arguments, the representatives submitted a list including the names of 31 alleged victims that coincide with those reported by the Commission. Likewise, the representatives identified several of the next of kin of 12 alleged victims. Afterwards, the representatives included in their final arguments an additional alleged victim, who had not been included in the initial list filed by the Commission, and also certain next of kin of six of the alleged victims. Finally, in the two briefs filed containing the evidence to facilitate the adjudication of the case, (supra para. 28), the representatives identified other next of kin of some of the alleged victims. 30. The Court shall apply the following criteria to define those it would consider as alleged victims and their next of kin in the instant case: a) the procedural stage in which they were identified; b) the admission by the State, and c) the characteristics of this case. 31. In that sense, the Court shall consider as alleged victims those persons who were identified by the Commission in its application, as well as those next of kin of the alleged victims identified by the representatives in their brief of requests and arguments (infra para. 60(26)). All of which ocurred before the answer to the petition filed by the State and before the State´s admission of the facts. 32. On the other hand, the Court notices that neither the Inter-American Commission nor the representatives have identified in the application and the brief of requests and arguments, respectively, Jesús Rafael Navarro as an alleged victim. It is only in the brief containing the final arguments that the representatives identify such victim and his next of kin, which brief has been filed after the admission made by the State. The representatives have not properly justifed such inclusion.