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respectively, the burial certificate, the death certificate, and the autopsy report for Eduardo José
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Landaeta.
110.
On July 6, 1997, the CTPJ sent an official letter to the Police Commandant of Aragua
requesting the appearance of officers Carlos Alexander Rojas, Carlos Andrés Requena, and Freddy
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Antonio Blanco in order to provide statements. The follow-up statement of Carlos Andrés Requena was
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taken on July 8, 1997.
111.
On July 10, 1997, the Medical Examiner's Office issued a report indicating the above128
described results of the autopsy.
112.
On August 12, 1997, CTPJ officers visited the homes of Yuribet Rujano Castro and
Virginia Duarte Hernández, who were named as witnesses in the case file and, due to the fact that they
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could not be found, they left summonses with other persons.
113.
On August 30, 1997, having been summoned, Carlos Alexander Rojas Alvarado
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appeared at the CTPJ to provide his version of the events.
114.
That same day, Yuribet del Valle Castro appeared at the CTPJ and said that she had
seen the incident as she was passing the spot in the company of her friend, Virginia Hernández de
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Duarte.
115.
On August 14, 1997, the Criminalistics Laboratory sent the CTPJ a copy of the
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planimetric study, which was prepared based on the autopsy report.
116.
On August 27, 1997, Jorge León García, representing María Magdalena Mejías, the
mother of Eduardo José, went to the Ninth Prosecutor's Office to file a complaint and request the opening
of a “bare facts” investigation into the homicide of Eduardo José Landaeta and the circumstances in
which it occurred, including the prior warnings given by a number of police officers to his mother
regarding the intention to execute him once he had been detained. This complaint also states that the
same officers who one month earlier had executed Igmar Alexander Landaeta Mejías–Eduardo José’s
brother–went to the place where the latter was being held to ask for him and presumably take him “to
headquarters.” The complaint also mentioned that the version of the police officers was extremely odd
since the vehicle did not seem to be damaged or have bullet holes in the chassis--only two outward
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perforations--while Eduardo José’s body had 15 bullet holes in it.
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Appendix 9. Exhibit 1. Domestic proceeding. Case 4C-4822/04, pages 109-112 (Appendix 2 to the petitioners’ brief
with observations on merits of July 18, 2007).
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Appendix 9. Exhibit 1. Domestic proceeding. Case 4C-4822/04, pages 113 and 114 (Appendix 2 to the petitioners’ brief
with observations on merits of July 18, 2007).
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Appendix 9. Exhibit 1. Domestic proceeding. Case 4C-4822/04, pages 115 and 116 (illegible) (Appendix 2 to the
petitioners’ brief with observations on merits of July 18, 2007).
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Appendix 9. Exhibit 1. Domestic proceeding. Case 4C-4822/04, pages 121-123. (Appendix 2 to the petitioners’ brief
with observations on merits of July 18, 2007).
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Appendix 9. Exhibit 1. Domestic proceeding. Case 4C-4822/04, pages 126, 127, and 128. (Appendix 2 to the
petitioners’ brief with observations on merits of July 18, 2007).
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Appendix 9. Exhibit 1. Domestic proceeding. Case 4C-4822/04, page 129 (Appendix 2 to the petitioners’ brief with
observations on merits of July 18, 2007).
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Appendix 9. Exhibit 1. Domestic proceeding. Case 4C-4822/04, pages 130 and 131 (Appendix 2 to the petitioners’ brief
with observations on merits of July 18, 2007).
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Appendix 9. Exhibit 1. Domestic proceeding. Case 4C-4822/04, pages 132 and 133 (Appendix 2 to the petitioners’ brief
with observations on merits of July 18, 2007).
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Appendix 9. Exhibit 1. Domestic proceeding. Case 4C-4822/04, pages 2, 3, and 4 (Appendix 2 to the petitioners’ brief
with observations on merits of July 18, 2007).