10 instructions given by the Judges of the Court, granted the Commission and the representatives of the next of kin of the victim until March 3, 2003, to submit their observations on said brief by the State, and these were received that day. 48. On March 3, 2003 the State submitted a brief entitled “Documento aclaratorio del reconocimiento de responsabilidad internacional por parte del Estado de Guatemala en el caso 10.636 ‘Myrna Mack Chang’” [“Document clarifying the acknowledgment of international responsibility by the State of Guatemala in the ‘Myrna Mack Chang’ case No. 10,636”]. In said document, the State explained “the mistake made in the note it [sent] on February 14 and, specifically, in the presentation made by the State of Guatemala before the [...] Court at the public hearing on February 18 of this year.” 49. On March 14, 2003, the Commission and the representatives of the next of kin of the victim submitted their observations on the aforementioned March 3, 2003 document filed by the State. 50. On May 6, 2003, the Secretariat informed the parties that, following instructions by the President, it granted them until June 9 of that same year to submit their final written pleadings. 51. On June 10, 2003, the representatives of the next of kin of the victim sent their final written pleadings and their annexes. 52. On June 24, 2003, after being granted an extension, the Commission submitted its final written pleadings. 53. The State did not submit final written pleadings within the term allowed for this purpose. 54. On August 6, 2003, the Secretariat, following instructions by the President, pursuant to Article 44 of the Rules of Procedure, asked the Commission, the representatives of the next of kin of the victim and the State to submit the life expectancy indexes for Guatemala from 1990 to the present, as well as the rate of variation of the consumer price indexes from 1998 to the present, as evidence to facilitate adjudication of the case. That same day, it also asked the Commission, as evidence to facilitate adjudication of the case, for the birth certificate of Vivian Mack Chang, and it asked the representatives of the next of kin of the victim for a certification of the marriage of Myrna Mack Chang and Víctor Hugo Hernández Anzueto; a certification of the marriage status of Myrna Mack Chang at the time of her demise; a copy of the case file of the ongoing criminal proceeding on the murder of Myrna Mack Chang from the October 4, 2001 ruling of the Constitutional Court of Guatemala, in which it designated the Second Chamber of the Court of Appeals to decide on the amparo remedy filed by Juan Oliva Carrera on July 23, 2001, to the present time, and copies of several actions carried out within the aforementioned criminal proceeding before October, 2001. 55. On September 4, requested as evidence to the Commission and the the documents requested 2003, the State submitted several documents that were facilitate adjudication of the case. On September 5, 2003, representatives of the next of kin of the victim submitted of them as evidence to facilitate adjudication of the case. 56. On September 4, 2003, the Secretariat, following instructions by the President, asked the State, pursuant to Article 44(1) of the Rules of Procedure, to