17 issued a certificate attesting to the injuries that Mr. Martín-del-Campo had suffered. 58.1.12 On June 4, 1992, the Fifty-fifth Penal Judge of the Distrito Federal formally ordered the imprisonment of Mr. Alfonso Martín-delCampo as allegedly responsible for the homicide of Ms. Juana Patricia Martín-del-Campo-Dodd and Mr. Gerardo Zamudio-Aldaba and declared regular proceedings open to process the case 57/92. 58.1.13 On July 14, 1992, the Fifty-fifth Penal Judge of the Distrito Federal held a hearing for the clearing of evidence, where Mr. Martíndel-Campo extended his deposition and stated that he did not recognise his Prosecutorial Agency deposition “since he was forced and physically pressured to sign as well as to make it.” 58.1.14. On September 09, 1992, the Fifty-fifth Penal Judge of the Distrito Federal brought Messrs. Galván-Gutiérrez and Martín-delCampo together for a face-to-face confrontation in relation to the alleged physical pressure to which the latter was subjected for purposes of obtaining a confession (infra para. 58.2.4). 58.1.15 On May 28, 1993, the Fifty-fifth Penal Judge of the Distrito Federal handed down a final decision in this case, whereby Mr. Alfonso Martín-del-Campo was declared penally responsible for the offence of homicide against Juana Patricia Martín-del-Campo-Dodd and Gerardo Zamudio-Aldaba, and convicted to 50 years in prison. In this judgment the court pointed out that the statement made by Mr. Alfonso Martín-del-Campo in the sense that it was he “who took the lives of those now dead […] is indeed corroborated by the evidence [assessed by the court, 8 ] since it […] was […] provided […] by the accused in his first deposition, without sufficient time for defensive briefing or reflection, and therefore [,] it must […] prevail over 8 Among others:1) statements made before the Fifty-fifth Penal Judge of the Distrito Federal by Mr. Gerardo García-Chavarria, Mr. Raúl García-Chavarria, Ms. Inés Guzmán-Sánchez, Ms. Nora Violeta Garibay-Martínez, Mr. Sergio Sierra-Fuentes, Mr. Antonio Arreola-Diez, Mr. Miguel Ángel Gutiérrez-Lara, Mr. Víctor Ramón Zetina-Vargas, Mr. Carlos Alberto García-Urquiza, Ms. Claudia Rosales-Pamanes, and Sotero Galván-Gutiérrez; 2) the May 30, 1992, report of Mr. Sotero Galván-Gutiérrez, an agent of the Judicial Police; 3) the mechanics report signed by the oficial expert on May 30, 1992; 4) the forensic chemistry report signed by expert Gabriel Bucio-Alvarado of May 30, 1992; 5) the report signed by the Federal Road and Harbour Police on May 30, 1992; 6) the report signed by official experts in events relative to vehicle traffic of May 31, 1992; 7) the certification of vehicles and damages prepared by the investigating authority; 8) the visual inspection at the place of the crash; 9) the knife certification provided by the Prosecutorial Agency; 10) the official criminology and photography report signed by official experts on May 31, 1992; 11) the haematological tracing report signed by experts in forensic chemistry of June 01, 1992; 12) the forensic chemistry report signed by experts María del Socorro López and María de Jesús Arenas of June 01, 1992; 13) the forensic chemistry reports signed by experts Francisco J. Origuel-Coutiño and María del Socorro López; 14) the forensic chemistry report pertinent to the haematological study in the 1991 Ford Thunderbird car with license plates number 998-ERN; 15) the hair report signed by the official forensic pathology expert Sebastián G. Castillo-Medina; 16) the car mechanics report signed by Mauro Zaragoza-Vázquez the expert provided by the defence; 17) the criminalistics report signed by Juventino Montiel-Sosa, the expert provided by the defence; 18) the meeting of experts held before this judicial authority on November 27, 1992; 19) the criminalistics thirdparty report signed by expert Gregorio Ávila-Olguín of December 30, 1992; 20) the in-situ visual inspection; 21) the official criminalistics report signed by experts Beatriz Minor-Morales and Antonio Vargas-Lagunas of May 30, 1992; 22) the judicial inspection at the site where the events took place; 23) the judicial inspection made in the 1991 Ford Thunderbird car with license plates 998-ERN; and 24) the medical and physical condition certificate of Alfonso Martín-del-Campo issued by the Prosecutorial Agency.