Institute of Human Rights (SIM) of the University of Utrecht; (4) Amira Esquivel Utreras; (5) Luciano Parejo Alfonso; (6) Libardo Rodríguez Rodríguez; (7) Gladys Camacho Cépeda; (8) Osvaldo Alfredo Gozaíni and Pablo Luis Manili, President and Secretary General of the Asociación Argentina de Derecho Procesal Constitucional; (9) Venezuelan Public law professors; 10 (10) Giuseppe F. Ferrari; (11) José Alberto Álvarez, Fernando Saenger, Renaldy Gutiérrez and Dante Figueroa, on behalf of the Inter-American Bar Association (IABA) and of themselves; 11 (12) Agustín E. de Asís Roig; (13) Ana Giacommette Ferrer, President of the Centro Colombiano de Derecho Procesal Constitucional; (14) Jaime Rodríguez-Arana; (15) Víctor Rafael Hernández Mendible; (16) Eduardo Jorge Prats; (17) Asdrúbal Aguiar Aranguren, as President of the Executive Committee of the Observatorio Iberoamericano de la Democracia and on behalf of himself; (18) Marta Franch Saguer; (19) Javier Barnes; (20) Miriam Mabel Ivanega; (21) Jose Luis Benavides; (22) Luis Enrique Chase Plate; (23) Diana Arteaga Macías; (24) José Luis Meilán Gil; (25) the New York City Bar Association 12 (26) Enrique Rojas Franco, President of the Asociación Iberoamericana de Derecho Público y Administrativo Profesor Jesús González Pérez; (27) Pablo Ángel Gutiérrez Colantuono and Henry Rafael Henríquez Machado; (28) Jorge Luis Suárez Mejías, Profesor of the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello; (29) José René Olivos Campos, President of the Asociación Mexicana de Derecho Administrativo; (30) Pedro José Jorge Coviello, Professor of the Universidad Católica Argentina; (31) Carlos Eduardo Herrera Maldonado; (32) Humberto Prado Sifontes; 13 (33) Jorge Raúl Silvero Salgueiro, and (34) Helena Kennedy and Sternford Moyo, Co-Presidents of the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute. 10. On September 24, 2013, Isaac Augusto Damsky and Gregorio Alberto Flax forwarded an amicus curiae brief. In view of the fact that the public hearing had been held on September 3 and 4, 2013, and, consequently, the time frame for submitting amicus curiae had expired on September 19, on the instructions of the President of the Court, the authors were advised that this brief could not be considered by the Court or incorporated into the case file. 11. Final written arguments and observations. On October 4, 2013, the representatives of the presumed victim forwarded their final written arguments and annexes, and the Commission presented its final written observations. In addition, on October 4, 2013, the State submitted its brief with final arguments, in which it responded to the Court’s request for helpful evidence. On October 10, 2013, the State presented the annexes to the brief with final arguments and included, as annex 4, an “appendix to the final document presented by the State.” The Court notes that this annex contains arguments that were provided within the time frame for the presentation of annexes, but not within the non10 The brief was signed by: Juan Domingo Alfonso, Jesús María Alvarado, Ricardo Antela Garrido, Tomás A. Arias Castillo, Carlos M. Ayala Corao, José Vicente Haro, Luis Herrera Orellana, Jorge Hiriakidis Longhi, Gustavo J. Linares Benzo, Laura Louza, José A. Muci Borjas, Rafael J. Chavero Gazdik, Roman J. Duque Corredor, Gerardo Fernández V., Oscar Ghersi Rassi, Freddy J. Orlando, Andrea Isabel Rondón G., Carlos Weffe H., and Enrique J. Sánchez Falcón. The followed persons endorsed this brief: Rogelio Pérez Perdomo, Gustavo Tarre Briceño, Henrique Meier, Humberto Njaim, Dean of the Faculty of Juridical and Political Studies of the Universidad Metropolitana, Ana Elvira Araujo García, José Ignacio Hernández G., Flavia Pesci-Feltri Scassellati-Sforzolini, Armando Rodríguez García, Alberto Blanco-Uribe Quintero, Serviliano Abache Carvajal and Antonio Silva Aranguren. 11 José Alberto Álvarez is President of the Inter-American Bar Association (IABA), Fernando Saenger is President of the IABA Constitutional Law Committee, Renaldy Gutiérrez is a former President of the IABA, and Dante Figueroa is a former Secretary General of the IABA. 12 The brief was presented by Werner F. Ahlers, Tiasha Palikovic, Andrew L. Frey, Allison Levine Stillman and Gretta L. Walters on behalf of the New York City Bar Association. The brief was signed by Werner F. Ahlers. 13 The brief was signed by Humberto Prado Sifontes, National Coordinator of the Human Rights Committee of the Venezuelan Federación de Colegios de Abogados and some members of regional human rights committees of the lawyers’ professional associations. 6