6 36. On March 26, 2004, the State consulted the Court on the admissibility of the Commission’s request to film the statement made by Lori Berenson before public notary. On March 29, 2004, on the instructions of the President, the Secretariat informed the State that the request was authorized. 37. On April 3, 2004, Gil Barragán Romero, forwarded an amici curiae brief, on behalf of 41 organizations. 38. On April 5, 2004, the State presented the affidavits made by Valentín Paniagua Corazao, Javier Pérez de Cuellar, Henry Pease García and Dennis Jett (supra para. 35). 39. On April 5, 2004, the Commission presented the affidavit made by Lori Berenson (supra para. 35) and, on April 7, 2004, it remitted a video with the recording of the statement. 40. On April 7, 2004, the Commission advised that it had appointed Freddy Gutiérrez and Santiago A. Canton as new delegates in this case. 41. On April 19, 2004, the Commission advised that Grimaldo Achahui Loaiza could not testify at the public hearing convened by the Court (supra para. 35), and requested that he be substituted by José Luis Sandoval Quesada. When the parties had been heard, on April 30, 2004, on the instructions of the President, the Secretariat informed the Commission, the State and the representatives of the alleged victim that this request had been rejected, since it had not been demonstrated that there was an impediment preventing the witness, Achahui, from appearing at the public hearing. 42. On April 23, 2004, the Commission forwarded its comments on the statements made by affidavits of the witnesses proposed by the State (supra para. 38). 43. On April 26, 2004, the representatives of the alleged victim submitted their comments, together with some attachments, on Lori Berenson’s statement, which had been forwarded by the Inter-American Commission (supra para. 39), and on the statements made before public notary by Valentín Paniagua Corazao, Javier Pérez de Cuellar, Henry Pease García and Dennis Jett, forwarded by the State (supra para. 38). 44. On April 27, 2004 the State presented its comments on the statement made before public notary by Lori Berenson, forwarded by the Inter-American Commission (supra para. 39), in which it objected to some questions formulated to the alleged victim as it considered them “impertinent.” 45. On April 29, 2004, the President issued an order in which he decided that the witness, Walter Albán Peralta, should make his statement before a notary public (affidavit). 46. On May 6, 2004, the Commission accredited Marisol Blanchard as a legal adviser in the case. 47. On May 7, 2004, the Court received the statement of the witness proposed by the State, Fausto Humberto Alvarado Dodero, and that of the witness proposed by