5 to render an expert opinion at a public hearing.” 25. On April 7, 2005, the representatives of the alleged victim filed a brief requesting “an authorization for [the] testimony of the [witnesses Manuel GonzálezAraya and Carlos Vega-Delgado, called by the President to appear at a public hearing,] to be rendered through an affidavit.” 26. On April 11, 2005, the State sent two briefs stating that “it would not object to the rendering of testimony by the expert […] Riego-Ramírez at the public hearing of […] May 9, [2005].” Moreover, the State communicated “its objection to the request” made so that the witnesses González-Araya and Vega-Delgado could render testimony through an affidavit. 27. On April 13, 2005, the Inter-American Commission filed a brief stating that “it had no objections” regarding the request of the representatives that the opinion of the expert witness Riego-Ramírez be rendered at a public hearing, and that the witnesses Manuel González-Araya and Carlos Vega-Delgado, called by the President of the Court to appear at a public hearing, render their testimony through affidavits (supra paras. 24 and 25). 28. On April 20, 2005, the representatives filed a copy of the expert opinion rendered before a “court officer of the Republic of Chile” by María Inés Horvitz (supra para. 23). On April 29, 2005, the representatives filed exhibits to said expert opinion. 29. On April 22, 2005, after the extension granted by the President, the representatives filed a copy of the expert opinion rendered through an affidavit by Carlos Peña-González and the testimony rendered through an affidavit by Raimundo Jesús Palamara-Stewart (supra para. 23). The following day, the representatives filed a brief stating their decision “to desist […] from obtaining the testimony of the witnesses” Manuel González-Araya and Carlos Vega-Delgado (supra paras. 23 and 25). 30. On April 28, 2005, the President issued a Resolution ordering, among other things, 1) to accept the waiver made by the representatives of the testimony of Manuel González-Araya and Carlos Vega-Delgado, and to omit submission of that evidence (supra para. 29); and 2) to call Cristian Riego-Ramírez, expert witness proposed by the representatives, to render its opinion at a public hearing to be held on May 9, 2005, as instructed by the President through a Resolution issued on March 18, 2005 (supra paras. 23 and 24). 31. On April 29, 2005, the representatives filed a brief and an appendix, whereby they informed that “on April 27, [2005], the expert witness […] Alex Avsolomovic[h …] informed that he would not be able to travel to Asunción, Paraguay to render his expert opinion in court[,] since he would undergo a surgery […]” and requested “to be authorized to render an expert opinion through an affidavit.” 32. On April 29, 2005, Anne Ellen Stewart-Orlandini filed a brief and its appendixes whereby it sent a copy of the affidavits signed by her and her children, Humberto Antonio and Fernando Alejandro, both members of the Palamara-Stewart family, in