91. On February 12, 2004, the Public Criminal Defense Institute submitted two briefs to the judge, the first requesting the replacement of Mrs. Zoila América Ordóñez González de Samayoa, who had been in charge of Mrs. Chinchilla’s defense. In the second communication, Mrs. Chinchilla requested her transfer to the San Juan de Dios General Hospital, stating that: “I have now given up hope of recovering and the condition in which I find myself is a torture.” On February 13, 2004, the judge turned down the request to replace her defense counsel, saying that “the name of the lawyer Zoila América Ordóñez de Samayoa does not appear” in the report, and therefore it is not possible to replace her as requested. 131 92. On February 26, 2004, Mrs. Chinchilla wrote a letter to the judge requesting that “Edgardo Enrique Enríquez Cabrera of the Public Criminal Defense Institute be appointed as her defense counsel, to replace the private defender that she had had previously.” On March 2, 2004, the judge appointed the aforementioned person as Mrs. Chinchilla’s new defense counsel.132 93. On February 27, 2004, the Director of the COF informed the judge that Mrs. Chinchilla had an authorized medical appointment but had refused to attend “because the Court had arranged for a patrol car to take her.”133 94. On March 1 to 3,134 Mrs. Chinchilla was rushed to hospital in an emergency after the duty doctor recommended her assessment at the HSJD and the Medical Services Coordinator of the Prison Service authorized an emergency visit by telephone. 95. On March 15, 2004, the COF duty doctor asked the Director of the COF to issue instructions for the medical examiner to evaluate Mrs. Chinchilla, who presented sequelae from her diabetes and was “presenting a [general] deterioration of her symptoms and needs to be re-evaluated by medical examiner.”135 96. On March 20, 2004, the duty nurse informed the Prison Service´s Deputy Coordinator of Medical Services that the inmate presented arterial hypertension, respiratory difficulties, low sugar, dilated pupils and generalized edema, which she reported to the Deputy Director of the COF and the Coordinator, who authorized via telephone her emergency transfer to the Roosevelt Hospital, where she was hospitalized, under guard. 136 97. On April 7, 2004, the duty nurse at the COF reported that the Medical Services Coordinator and the Health Care Coordinator had ordered Mrs. Chinchilla’s transfer to the Cf. Certification of Enforcement 429-96. Judiciary. Of. 7. Communication from the Departmental Coordinator of the Public Criminal Defense Institute to the Judge of the Second Criminal Enforcement Court of February 12, 2004; Communication from Mrs. María Inés Chinchilla Sandoval of February 12, 2004; and Decision of the Judge of the Second Criminal Enforcement Court of February 13, 2004 (evidence file, folios 1265 to 1268). 131 Cf. Certification of Enforcement 429-96. Judiciary. Of. 7. Communication from Mrs. María Inés Chinchilla Sandoval to the Judge of the Second Criminal Enforcement Court of February 26, 2004; and Decision of the Judge of the Second Criminal Enforcement Court of March 2, 2004 (evidence file, folios 1279 and 1280). 132 Cf. Certification of Enforcement 429-96. Judiciary. Of. 7. Communication of the Director of the COF of February 27, 2004 (evidence file, folio 1277). 133 Cf. Certification of Enforcement 429-96. Women’s Orientation Center. Communications of the Director of the COF of March 3 and 4, 2004 (evidence file, folios 1281-1282). 134 Cf. Certification of Enforcement 429-96. Women’s Orientation Center. Communication from the duty doctor to the Director of the COF of March 15, 2004 (evidence file, folio 2671). 135 Cf. Certification of Enforcement 429-96. Women’s Orientation Center. Communication from the duty doctor to the Director of the COF of March 20, 2004 (evidence file, folio 2670). 136 31