to obtain the results of different expert appraisals requested on September 22, 2004, and were told that some of them had been taken in November 2004 by the Twentieth Prosecutor and by an official of the Villa de Cura Police Station, in addition to the autopsy of the deceased, which had been taken by an official of that Police Station in October 2004.323 In this regard, the Maracay Police Station asked the Villa de Cura Police Station to forward all the proceedings, including the appraisal taken from the forensic laboratory.324 222. On August 25, 2005, a ballistic trajectory appraisal was conducted.325 On September 1, 2005, the Twentieth Prosecutor asked the Investigation Unit to forward the results of the autopsy performed on the deceased, because this evidence was “not in the case file.”326 The autopsy was forwarded on September 5, 2005, and, on October 20, 2005, a certified copy of the death certificate.327 On January 24, 2006, the Twentieth Prosecutor asked the Guanayén and Barbacoas Police Stations to send all the rifles that were part of their armory.328 The information requested about the weapons in relation to the death of Luis Barrios and of Rigoberto Barrios was forwarded by the police station on October 7, 2005.329 223. On February 7, 2006, four firearms were subjected to forensic, mechanical and design inspections.330 On May 17, 2006, the Twentieth Prosecutor requested a copy of the results of the forensic inspections and blood tests ordered on September 22, 2004, and that several procedures be conducted.331 The same day, the copy of the forensic inspection and blood tests carried out on October 18, 2004, was sent to the Prosecutor, and he was advised that, on checking the files, it had been discovered that the ballistic comparison had not been carried out, because the evidence provided “did not have the physical characteristics to be able to identify it with the firearms that had been handed in.”332 On May 18, 2006, a forensic, mechanical and design inspection and ballistic comparison was carried out of a weapon, which concluded that the ballistic comparison had not been carried out, because it had been found that the probative elements provided lacked the physical characteristics to identify them in relation to the firearms that fired them and, on May 25, a 323 Cf. Records of procedures of the Investigation Unit of August 2 and 15, 2005 (file of attachments to the answering brief, tome I, attachment 6, folios 4871 and 4875). 324 Cf. Memorandum No. 9700-064-1419 of the Investigation Unit of August 10, 2005 (file of attachments to the answering brief, tome I, attachment 6, folio 4873) and Memorandum No. 9700-064- 14426 of the Investigation Unit of August 17, 2005 (file of attachments to the answering brief, tome I, attachment 6, folio 4876). 325 Cf. Report No. 9700-064-DC-4449.04 of the Investigation Unit of August 25, 2005 (file of attachments to the answering brief, tome I, attachment 6, folios 4890 to 4895). 326 Cf. Note No. 05-F20-1484-05 of the Twentieth Prosecutor of September 1, 2005 (file of attachments to the answering brief, tome I, attachment 6, folio 4885). 327 Cf. Note No. 7188 of the Investigation Unit of September 5, 2005, and death and burial certificate of October 20, 2010 (file of attachments to the answering brief, tome I, attachment 6, folios 4887 and 4903). 328 Cf. Notes No. 05-F20-150-05 and No. 05-F20-151-05 of the Twentieth Prosecutor (file of attachments to the answering brief, tome I, attachment 6, folios 4901 and 4902). 329 Cf. Note No. BB-337-05 of the Barbacoas Police Station of October 7, 2005 (file of attachments to the answering brief, tome I, attachment 6, folio 4903). 330 Cf. Report No. 9700-064-DC-0533.06 of February 7, 2006 (file of attachments to the answering brief, tome I, attachment 6, folios 4904 to 4906). 331 Cf. Notes No. 05-F20-940-06, No. 05-F20-941-06 and No. 05-F20-942-06 of the Twentieth Prosecutor of May 17, 2006 (file of attachments to the answering brief, tome I, attachment 6, folios 4907 to 4909). 332 Cf. Reports No. 900-064-DC-1598.04 and No. 9700-064-DC-2347.06 of the Investigation Unit of May 17, 2006 (file of attachments to the answering brief, tome I, attachment 6, folios 4911 to 4915). 76