5 February 26, 2003, respectively, because cases are heard in the order in which they are received, since each case is extremely important. 26. On November 7, 2002, the Commission submitted comments, with an attachment, to the brief presented by the State on July 22, 2002. 27. On November 15, 2002, the State provided certified copies of the whole of “case file 154-00 processed [in the ordinary jurisdiction] against Lori Berenson Mejía for the crime of terrorism against the State.” 28. On December 3, 2002, the State submitted its answer to the application. 29. On January 15, 2003, the State submitted an electronic version of the judgment of January 3, 2003, of the Constitutional Court of Peru, which appears in file No. 010-2002-AI/TC. 30. On February 26, 2003, the State forwarded to the Court the text of Legislative Decrees Nos. 921 to 927, which had been adopted “urgently” in order to “adapt counterterrorism legislation to the mandates established by the Constitutional Court. 31. On July 2, 2003, the Archbishopric of El Salvador presented an amicus curiae brief. 32. On January 8, 2004, the State forwarded a copy of the case file against Lori Berenson in the military jurisdiction. 33. On January 8, 2004, the Commission appointed Lilly Ching as legal adviser in this case, together with Ignacio Álvarez and Pedro Díaz. 34. On February 27, 2004, the State informed the Court that it had appointed Enrique Carrillo Thorne as legal adviser, in accordance with the provisions of Article 21(1) of the Rules of Procedure. 35. On March 5, 2004, the President issued an order in which, pursuant to Article 47(3) of the Rules of Procedure, he requested that the alleged victim, proposed as a witness by the Commission, and Valentín Paniagua Corazao, Javier Pérez de Cuellar, Henry Pease García and Dennis Jett, proposed as witnesses by the State, should provide their testimonies by affidavit. The President granted a non-extendible period of twenty days from transmittal of these documents for the Inter-American Commission, the representatives, and the State to make any comments they deemed pertinent on the statements presented by the other parties. In the same order, the President convened the parties to a public hearing to be held at the seat of the Inter-American Court, as of May 7, 2004, to receive the testimonial statements of Rhoda Berenson, witness offered by the representatives and convened by the President, Grimaldo Achahui Loaiza, witness proposed by the Inter-American Commission, and Fausto Humberto Alvarado Dodero and Walter Albán Peralta, witnesses offered by the State, and also to hear the final oral arguments on merits, reparations, and costs. Moreover, in this order, the President informed the parties that they had until June 7, 2004, to present their final written arguments on merits, reparations, and costs.