Pedro Miguel Vera Vera. Also addressed alleged obstacles to carrying
out these measures.
c) Hans Petter Hougen and Önder Özkalipci. Expert witnesses. Doctors
in Medical Science and Forensic Medicine, respectively. Joint expert
witness report ordered ex officio by the Tribunal.9 Addressed the
supposed medical status of Pedro Miguel Vera Vera and the
consequences of the alleged lack of access to medical care for the 10
days after he was shot until the moment of his death.
d) Manuel Ramiro Aguilar Torres. Expert witness. Attorney. Expert
witness report ordered ex officio by the Tribunal.10 Addressed the
criminal laws and criminal procedure applicable to the facts of this
case, including the possible criminal and administrative investigations
that could have been launched to determine the corresponding
responsibility.
e) Aída Beatriz Villarreal Tobar. Expert witness. Social Worker. Expert
report presented by the representative. Addressed the practices in
Ecuadorian prisons for evaluating the moment in which individuals
under detention who are sick or wounded must be checked into public
hospitals.
21.
With regard to the evidence given during the public hearing, the Court
heard the testimony of:
a) Francisca Mercedes Vera Valdez. Alleged victim. Mother of Pedro
Miguel Vera Vera. Testimony offered by the representative. Addressed
the alleged actions taken so that medical attention might be provided
to her son, as well as the effects she suffered as a consequence of the
facts in this case.
B.
Admission of the evidence
22.
In this case, as in others, the Court accepts the evidentiary value of
the documents presented by the parties at the proper procedural moment
that were not contested or opposed, and whose authenticity was not
questioned.11 The documents that the Tribunal requested of the State as
evidence to facilitate adjudication (supra para. 9 and infra para. 24) are
incorporated into the body of evidence under Article 58 of the Rules of
Procedure.
9
Cf. Case of Vera Vera V. Ecuador. Order of the President of the Inter-American Court of
Human Rights of December 23, 2010, Operative Paragraph two.
10
Cf. Case of Vera Vera V. Ecuador, supra note 9, Operative Paragraph two.
11
Cf. Case of Velásquez Rodríguez V. Honduras. Merits. Judgment of July 29, 1988. Series
C No. 1, para. 140; Case of Cabrera García and Montiel Flores V. México, supra note 7, para. 27,
and Case of Abrill Alosilla V. Perú, supra note 7, para. 38.
10