28 Affairs of Guatemala, of February 19, a copy of the October 3, 2002 judgment issued by the Third Criminal Court of Guatemala, a copy of the May 7, 2003 ruling of the Fourth Chamber of the Court of Appeals of Guatemala and a copy of several press releases and other newspaper reports in connection with the Mack Chang case (supra para. 18). 123. In its brief with requests, pleadings, and evidence, the representatives of the next of kin of the victim offered as evidence numerous documents included in 162 annexes (supra para. 24).15 In the brief with observations on the preliminary objections, said representatives also included copies of various court orders and actions and in the brief with the final pleadings they attached several annexes pertaining to vouchers for expenses (supra paras. 27 and 51). 124. The State, in turn, attached several annexes16 to its brief answering the application and filing preliminary objections (supra para. 25). Subsequently, it submitted copies of the writ of indictment and of the order for the trial to commence against the alleged accessories in said criminal proceeding. 125. As evidence to facilitate adjudication of the case, the Court received the rate of variation of the consumer price index in Guatemala from 1998 to the present and the life expectancy indexes in said country from 1990 to the present, submitted by the Commission, the representatives of the next of kin of the victim and the State (supra para. 55). It also received copies of several procedural actions from the file of the ongoing criminal proceeding under domestic jurisdiction, filed by the representatives of the next of kin of the victim and by the State; and the birth certificate of Vivian Mack Chang submitted by the Commission and by said representatives. The representatives of the next of kin of the victim also forwarded a certificate of the marriage of Myrna Mack Chang and Víctor Hugo Hernández Anzueto and the marital status certificate of Myrna Mack Chang at the time of her death (supra paras. 55 and 57). 126. Pursuant to the Order of the President (supra para. 35), Carmen de LeónEscribano Schlotter and Clara Arenas Bianchi submitted their statements in writing and Bernardo Morales Figueroa submitted his expert opinion in writing, all of them made before a notary public (supra para. 37). The Court will now summarize the significant parts of said statements: a. Sworn statement by Carmen de León-Escribano Schlotter, a sociologist17 15 Cf. annexes R-I-01 to R-VII-92 of the brief with requests, pleadings and evidence submitted by the representatives of the victim on September 13, 2001 (leaves 1260 to 4056 of the file with annexes to the brief with requests, pleadings and evidence); and annexes A to E of the brief with the final pleadings of the representatives of the next of kin of the victim submitted on June 10, 2003 (leaves 8753 to 9221 of the file with annexes to the brief with the final pleadings). 16 Cf. annexes 1 to 32 of the brief filed by the State to answer the application and raise preliminary objections (leaves 4057 to 8419 of the file with annexes to the brief answering the application and raising preliminary objections); and leaves 494 to 502 of volume III of the dossier on the merits and possible reparations. 17 She rendered her statement before a notary public on January 16, 2003, on the displaced population studied by Myrna Mack Chang, on the interest of the Army in said population, and on the relationship of her work as a Government official on the issue of displaced persons and involvement of the Presidential General Staff.