32 Brizuela [Reyes], the Second Lieutenants [José] Alberto Alfaro [Martínez]∗, [Leonel] Matute Chávez, [Orlando] Mejía [Murcia], [José Reinaldo] Servellón [Castillo], and [Osvaldo] López [Flores], for the same crimes against Seargents Núñez, Palacios, Adan, Zambrano, and Miranda and Cano for the same crimes against agents Laínez, [Hugo Antonio] Vivas, [José Antonio] Martínez [Arrazola], and Francisco Morales Suanzo and against the Police Judge Roxana Sierra [Ramírez], for the crimes of Illegal Arrest, Abuse of Authority, and Violation of the duties of Officials and Concealment, in detriment of the minor Rony Alexis Betancourth [Vásquez].”32 79(39) On March 5, 1996 the Criminal Court of First Instance (hereinafter “the Court”) admitted the accusation, prior obligatory proceedings, and ordered the measures and investigations that needed to be performed.33 79(40) On May 6, 1996 the representative of the Public Prosecutors’ Office presented a criminal accusation before the Court against “Marco Tulio Regalado Hernández, [José Alberto] Alfaro Martínez, Hugo Antonio Vivas, José Antonio Martínez Arrazola, [and] Roxana Sierra Ramírez […] for the crimes of murder committed in detriment of the youngsters Orlando Álvarez Ríos, Rony Alexis Betancourth [Vásquez], Marco Antonio Servellón García, and Diomedes Obed García Sánchez, […] by [said] officials against the exercise of the rights guaranteed by the Constitution, in detriment of the existence and security of the State, and abuse of authority, in detriment of public administration.” In the charges, they requested, among others, that: 1) the corresponding arrest warrants be issued, and 2) the joining of the charges with the records of the proceedings started regarding these same facts through the indictment presented before the same Court by the Ombudsman of the Committee for the Defense of Human Rights in Honduras (CODEH), as well as those presented before the Second Criminal Peace Court of Comayaguela.34 79(41) On May 6, 1996 the Court admitted the charges presented by the Public Prosecutors’ Office, and therefore ordered that the corresponding inquiries be made, that a communication be issued to the Second Criminal Court of Tegucigalpa and the Second Criminal Peace Court of Comayagüela, so that they could disqualify themselves from hearing the cases conducted to clarify the deaths of Marco Antonio Servellón García, Orlando Álvarez Ríos, Rony Alexis Betancourth Vásquez, and Diomedes Obed García Sánchez and which were forwarded to said Court for their continuation. Finally, the Court denied the request for an arrest warrant based on lack of sufficient grounds to do so.35 ∗ In what refers to Mr. José Alberto Alfaro Martínez, in the documents presented by the parties he appears indistinctively with the name José Alberto or Alberto José. This Court understands that it is dealing with the same person, thus in the present Judgment it will use the name José Alberto Alfaro Martínez. 32 Cfr. claim of March 5, 1996 presented by Manases Betancourth Nuñez before the Criminal Court of First Instance (dossier of appendixes to the petition, appendix 4, volume I, folios 845 through 850) 33 Cfr. ruling issued by the Criminal Court of First Instance, of March 5, 1996 (dossier of appendixes to the petition, appendix 4, volume I, folios 864 through 865). 34 Cfr. criminal charges presented by the Assistant District Attorney of the Special Human Rights Public Prosecutors’ Office, Mercedes Suyapa Vásquez Coello before the Criminal Court of First Instance, of May 6, 1996 (dossier of appendixes to the petition, appendix 4, volume I, folios 905 through 926). 35 Cfr. ruling issued by the Criminal Court of First Instance, on May 6, 1996 (dossier of appendixes to the petition, appendix 4, volume I, folios 1022 and 1023).