8 observations on their inclusion in the inventory of evidence in the case within seven days. The Court also decided to reject, as out of order, the other documents presented by the State. 37. On September 30, 1997, the Commission submitted the brief containing its observations, in which it requested the Court to "reject the presentation of documents offered by the Illustrious Government of Guatemala on September 22, 1997, inasmuch as the request that the Court accept them as evidence [was] clearly time-barred […]." 38. On October 10, 1997 the President decided to add the following documents submitted by the State on September 22 to the inventory of evidence in the instant case: aa photocopy of the file of the investigation conducted in the case of Judge Julio Aníbal Trejo-Duque, No. 00339-88, of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Guatemalan National Police; ba photocopy of the file of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Guatemalan National Police on the investigation into the death of Mr. Carlos Morán-Amaya; ca photocopy of the file of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Guatemalan National Police on the investigation into the death of Mr. Erik Leonardo Chinchilla; dcertification relating to the petition for application of the Law of National Reconciliation as an incidental question, submitted by Mr. José Antonio Aldana-Fajardo, a former Treasury Police agent involved in the Paniagua Morales et al. Case; and rejected, as inadmissible, the other documents offered at the same time, which had been the subject of the Commission’s observations. 39. At a public hearing held on September 22, 23 and 24, 1997, the Court heard the statements of the witnesses and the reports of the experts offered by the parties. There appeared before the Court: For the State: Acisclo Valladares-Molina, Agent; Carmela Curup-Chajón, Alternate Agent; Guillermo A. Carranza-Taracena, Assistant; Acisclo Valladares-Urruela, Assistant; César Guillermo Castillo, Assistant; Rosa María Estrada-Silva, Assistant; and José Miguel Valladares-Urruela, Assistant. For the Commission: Claudio Grossman, Delegate; Elizabeth Abi-Mershed, Attorney; Mark Martel, Assistant; Viviana Krsticevic, Assistant; Marcela Matamoros, Assistant; and Ariel E. Dulitzky, Assistant. Witnesses proposed by the Commission: María Idelfonsa Morales de Paniagua; Blanca Lidia Zamora de Paniagua;