44 operating in the region.” In this regard, the State alleged that “there is no direct or circumstantial evidence that would indicate that State agents intervened in planning, executing, deciding, or acting as intermediaries in the murder of Jesús María Valle Jaramillo.” In any case, the State clarified that its acknowledgement of responsibility was partial to the extent that “not all the investigations opened have concluded. Indeed, some of them are still open in the Prosecutor General’s Office and are designed to identify other authors who could have taken part in the facts with different degrees of responsibility.” 148. The Court observes that various criminal, disciplinary, and administrative proceedings were opened in relation to the facts of the instant case. The Court finds it pertinent, first, to make a brief summary of these proceedings in the said order and based on the State’s acknowledgement of facts, and then to analyze the violation of Articles 8(1) and 25(1) of the Convention with regard to each one. A) Criminal proceedings 149. The Court accepts as proved that, following the facts that are the subject of this case, the Prosecutor General's Office, through the Rapid Reaction Unit, began a preliminary investigation by conducting an on-site inspection. Following several preliminary measures, the Colombian State began a formal criminal investigation under case No. 26,017 on July 8, 1998, and, on May 21, 1999, the Prosecutor's Office assessed the merits of the investigation, charged 10 individuals with the offenses of “illegally forming paramilitary groups” and aggravated murder, and ordered that the investigation continue with regard to the offenses against the personal liberty and autonomy of Carlos Fernando Jaramillo Correa and Nelly Valle Jaramillo. On March 15, 2001, the Third Criminal Court of the Medellín Specialized Circuit sentenced Álvaro Goez Mesa and Jorge Eliécer Rodríguez Guzmán to 40 years' imprisonment as co-perpetrators of the murder of Jesús María Valle Jaramillo. Carlos Castaño Gil was sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment as author of the offense of forming unlawful armed groups or paramilitary groups. In the same judgment, another seven civilians were acquitted of the offense of aggravated murder and forming part of unlawful armed groups, and Carlos Castaño Gil was acquitted as co-author of the offense of murder. This decision was confirmed on July 25, 2001, by the Criminal Chamber of the Superior Court of Medellín, which reduced the term of imprisonment delivered by the judge of first instance from 20 years to 9 years for Carlos Castaño Gil, and from 40 years to 25 years for Álvaro Goez Mesa and Jorge Eliécer Rodríguez. Carlos Castaño Gil died in 2005. 150. On January 28, 2008, alleging the “significant non-compliance with the Colombian State's obligation to investigate seriously and impartially the [alleged] violations [in the case],” the National Human Rights Unit of the Prosecutor General's Office filed an application for judicial review of the judgment of July 25, 2001, delivered by the Superior Court of Medellín before the Supreme Court of Justice. On April 1, 2008, the Criminal Cassation Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice decided to admit this application for judicial review.108 At the time of this judgment, the Court has no further information in this regard. 151. As a result of the rupture of the unity of case No. 26, 017 (opened for the facts cited when assessing the investigation stage), cases No. 31,928 and No. 343,431 were opened. Regarding case No. 31,928, on November 23, 1999, the Medellín Regional Prosecutor charged another alleged member of the paramilitary forces in absentia. However, on May 31, 2007, the Fourth Criminal Court of the Medellín Circuit acquitted him. Regarding case 108 Judicial decision of the Criminal Cassation Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice of April 1, 2008 (file on merits, tome V, folios 1048 and 1049).