12 Dionicio Vega; Rosalía Figueredo Britez; Juan Antonio y Concepción de la Vega Elorza, and María Zulia Giménez González; witnesses offered by the representatives: Teofista Domínguez Riveros, and Felipa Benicia Valdéz; expert witnesses offered by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights: Emilio Arturo García Méndez, and Mario Ramón Torres Portillo; expert witnesses offered by the representatives: Luis Emilio Escobar Faella, and Ana Clerico-Deutsch. 55. Although summoned by the President of the Court, one witness did not appear to deliver his testimony.25 56. At the public hearing, both the respondent State and the representatives submitted various documents to the Court (infra para. 74). 57. On May 4, 2004, the Commission advised the Court that it had been informed that witness María Zulia Giménez, offered by the representatives, was related to one of the representatives. 58. On July 5, 6 and 7, 2004, the Commission, the State and the representatives, respectively, presented their final written submissions. 59. When they presented their final written submissions, the representatives introduced additional evidence in the form of documents referring to costs and expenses (infra para. 75). 60. On August 10, 2004, on instructions received from the President, the Secretariat asked the Commission, the representatives and the State to submit, by no later than August 24, 2004, certain documents as evidence to facilitate adjudication of the case. 61. On August 24, 2004, the representatives submitted, by fax, a portion of the documentary evidence that the Court had requested for better adjudication of the case. It arrived by courier on August 27, 2004. On August 24, 2004, the Commission sent a fax communication concerning the evidence to better adjudicate the case, part of which arrived by courier on August 30, 2004. On August 23, 24 and 25, 2004, the State sent, by fax, a portion of the evidence to better adjudicate the case. That same evidence arrived by courier on August 27, 2004. None of the parties provided all the evidence requested. On September 1, 2004, the Secretariat 25 Mrs. Irma Alfonso de Bogarín.