25
79.
The information available indicates that payment was made. Judge Chévez stated that
the payment is an advance toward the reparations he is owed and his acceptance of that compensation
does not signify his acceptance of the Judicial Career Council’s decision.129
3.
Tirza del Carmen Flores Lanza
80.
Magistrate Tirza del Carmen Flores Lanza was serving as a Tenured Magistrate on the
San Pedro Sula District Appellate Court, department of Cortés.130 She joined the Judiciary on June 11,
2002131 and was a member of the AJD.132
81.
On June 30, 2009, the magistrate, in her citizen capacity, filed a petition seeking amparo
relief with the SCJ in which she alleged that “the residence of Mr. José Manuel Zelaya Rosales had been
entered illegally, whereupon he was apprehended and sent into forced exile in the city of San José,
Costa Rica” on June 28. The petition identified the Head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Armed Forces
as the authority responsible for these actions. The petition sought, “as an urgent precautionary
measure, the immediate repatriation of the citizen President.”133 By a decision of that same date, the
Constitutional Chamber of the SCJ joined that petition with similar petitions filed by six other persons
(among them, Judge Adán Guillermo López Lone) and granted cert for an examination of the merits. In
that same ruling, the Supreme Court ordered the Head of the Joint Chiefs to submit a report within five
days.134
82.
On June 30, 2009, Magistrate Tirza Flores and others also filed a criminal complaint with
the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic in which they accused four members of the Superior
Council of the Honduran Armed Forces and several members of the National Congress of the crimes of
abuse of authority, usurpation of functions, terrorism, rebellion, treason and crimes against the form of
government and against high-ranking officials of the Honduran State.135
129
Annex 21. Letter from Judge Luis Alonso Chévez de la Rocha. Attachment to the petitioners’ communication of
November 30, 2011.
130
Annex 22. SCJ. Judicial Career Council. Certification, Case File No. 3076. Office of the Director of Personnel
Management. Rebuttal Hearing 04-2010, pages 163-146. Attachment to the State’s communication of June 25, 2012 received
on July 2, 2012.
131
Annex 22. SCJ. Judicial Career Council. Certification, Case File No. 3076. Appeal, pages 1-12. Attachment to the
State’ communication of June 25, 2012 received of July 2, 2012.
132
See in this regard, Annex 23. Republic of Honduras. Office of the Director of Personnel Management. File No. 222223-2009. Complaint . 267-OGJT-PJ-2009. Judicial Career Service, Rebuttal Hearing #04-2010, Tirza Flores Lanza, January 7,
2010. Pages 95. Annex **. Republic of Honduras. Office of the Director of Personnel Management. File No. 222-223-2009.
Complaint . 267-OGJT-PJ-2009. Judicial Career Service, Rebuttal Hearing #172-2009, Guillermo López Lone, December 3, 2009.
Attachment to the petitioners’ communication of January 20, 2011.
133
Annex 23. Republic of Honduras. Office of the Director of Personnel Management. File No Office of the Director
of Personnel Management. File No. 222-223-2009. Complaint . 267-OGJT-PJ-2009. Petition seeking amparo relief SCO-8962009. June 30, 2009. Attachment to the petitioners’ communication of January 20, 2011.
134
Annex 23. Republic of Honduras. Office of the Director of Personnel Management. File No Office of the Director
of Personnel Management. File No. 222-223-2009. Complaint . 267-OGJT-PJ-2009. Ruling of the Constitutional Chamber of the
SCJ. June 30, 2009. Joined petitions Nos. 896, 897, 898, 899, 900, 901 and 902 of 2009. Page 41. Attachment to the petitioners’
communication of January 20, 2011.
135
Annex 23. Republic of Honduras. Office of the Director of Personnel Management. File No Office of the Director of
Personnel Management. File No. 222-223-2009. Complaint . 267-OGJT-PJ-2009. Complaint filed with the Office of the Attorney
General of the Republic, Public Prosecutor’s Office. Attachment to the petitioners’ communication of January 20, 2011.