10 (…) Article 6: When judges sentence minors to deprivation of liberty, said sentence shall be served in specialized institutions. If the person attains his/ her majority while serving sentence in a juvenile facility, he/she shall serve the remainder of his/her sentence in adult institutions. (…) 40. While Law 22,278 establishes certain special conditions for applying criminal law in the case of a juvenile offender, it is the Nation’s Penal Code that contains the catalogue of crimes and sentences, the essentials pertaining to enforcement of sentence and the parole system. Thus, the 9 provisions of the Penal Code that are relevant to the examination of the merits of this case are as follows: Article 13. Anyone sentenced to prison or life in prison who has served twenty years of his/her sentence, anyone sentenced to temporary confinement or to prison for more than three years and who has served two thirds of his/her sentence, and anyone sentenced to confinement or prison for three years or less and who has served at least one year of his/her sentence of confinement or eight months of his/her prison sentence, all the while routinely observing the prison rules, may obtain his/her release by decision of a judge, following a report from the directors of the institution, under the following conditions: (…) Article 44: (…) If the sentence is confinementt for life, then the sentence for the attempted crime shall be confinement for a period of fifteen to twenty years. If the penalty is imprisonment for life, the penalty for the attempted crime shall be imprisonment for a period of ten to fifteen years. Article 80. A sentence of confinement for life or imprisonment for life shall be imposed, and the provisions of Article 52 may be applied to anyone who murders: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. His/her parent, offspring or spouse, knowing that they are parent, offspring or spouse; With rage, premeditation, poison or by other insidious means; For a price or a promise of remuneration; For pleasure, greed, or out of racial or religious hatred; By any means capable of posing a threat to society; Through a premeditated conspiracy of two or more persons; To prepare the way for, facilitate, consummate or conceal another crime or to ensure its outcome or procure impunity for oneself or for another, or by not having achieved one’s ends in an attempt to commit another crime. (…) B. The framework of relevant laws governing criminal procedure in the matter of appeals and other remedies. 41. In this section, the Commission will describe the framework of relevant laws governing the various remedies that the alleged victims filed to challenge the sentences that ordered that they be imprisoned or confined for life. 1. 9 Autonomous City of Buenos Aires Original petition filed on behalf of César Alberto Mendoza, received on June 17, 2002. Attachment 1. Legislation.