2 Human Rights Commission of Nicaragua (CPDH). I 1. On January 29, 1997, the Court delivered a Judgment on the merits of the Genie Lacayo Case, in which it unanimously 1. Dismisse[d] the preliminary objection of non-exhaustion of domestic remedies lodged by the State of Nicaragua. unanimously 2. Decide[d] that the State of Nicaragua has violated Article 8(1) of the Convention, in connection with Article 1(1), to the detriment of Mr. Raymond Genie-Peñalba. unanimously 3. Decide[d] that the State of Nicaragua has not violated Articles 2, 25, 24 and 51(2) of the Convention. by four votes to one 4. Set at US$20,000 (twenty thousand dollars of the United States of America), or its equivalent in cordobas on the date of payment, the amount that the State of Nicaragua must pay, exempt from tax and within six months of the date of this Judgment, as fair compensation to Mr. Raymond Genie-Peñalba. The payment shall be effected in the form and on the terms set forth in paragraph 95 of this Judgment. Judge Pacheco-Gómez dissenting. 2. On April 30, 1997, the Inter-American Commission submitted a brief in which it endorsed a communication from Mr. Raymond Genie-Peñalba, the youth Jean Paul GenieLacayo's father, and the Permanent Human Rights Commission (CPDH) of Nicaragua, containing an "application [for] judicial review" of the Judgment delivered in this case by the Inter-American Court on January 29, 1997. The request was filed on the ground that the judgment rendered by the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice of Nicaragua on February 12, 1997, "produced a new juridical act that radically altered the powers that a Court of Justice should enjoy in a specific case, inasmuch as it transformed the Judiciary's possible ineffectiveness into the Judiciary's proven ineffectiveness." 3. In that brief it asked the Court to revise its Judgment and to find that Articles 8(1) (Right to a Fair Trial), 25(1) (Right to Judicial Protection), 24 (Right to Equal Protection), and 2 (Domestic Legal Effects) of the American Convention on Human Rights (hereinafter "the American Convention") had been violated. It further requested the Court to call a public hearing to be attended by the parties in the case in order to determine the appropriate indemnity for the damages caused by the judgment issued by the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice of Nicaragua. 4. The Court summarizes the arguments adduced in the brief endorsed by the Commission as follows: a. That the Judgment issued by the Inter-American Court on January 29, 1997, in this case declared that the defects in the military proceeding regarding the violations of the Genie-Lacayo family's human rights were of a domestic nature and