7 those occupied by the alleged victims in the SBS. Subsequently, on July 17, 2002, the State presented documents with the information requested by the Secretariat (supra para. 30) on the amount of the monthly pension that it had paid to the alleged victims or to their next of kin since November 1992, and on the amounts earned as salary by the persons who had occupied similar functions or positions to those occupied by the alleged victims in the SBS. 35. On July 2, 2002, Carlos Torres Benvenuto presented a copy of the power of attorney for the proceeding before the Court that he had granted to Viviana Krsticevic, Javier Mujica Petit and María Clara Galvis on June 14, 2002. 36. On July 8, 2002, the Commission transmitted its final list of witnesses and expert witnesses for the public hearing on merits and possible reparations in this case. The following day, the representatives of the alleged victims and their next of kin transmitted their final list and endorsed the testimonial and expert evidence offered in the Commission’s application. 37. On July 16, 2002, the President issued an Order in which he rejected the objections raised by the State with regard to the testimonial and expert evidence and admitted the testimonial and expert statements offered by the Commission and by the representatives of the alleged victims and their next of kin. He also summoned the parties to a public hearing to be held at the seat of the Court at 10 a.m. on September 3, 2002, to hear their arguments on possible preliminary objections, merits and possible reparations, and also the statements of the witnesses and expert witnesses proposed by the Commission and the representatives of the alleged victims and their next of kin. 38. On July 22, 2002, the representatives of the alleged victims and their next of kin presented a communication with information on the “current status of the case.” Subsequently, on August 21, 2002, it transmitted the appendices mentioned in this communication. 39. On August 1 and 5, 2002, the Secretariat, on the instructions of the President and pursuant to Article 44 of the Rules of Procedure, requested the representatives of the alleged victims and their next of kin to present the following documents: copy of the proposal for a friendly settlement that they had submitted to the Executive Secretariat of the National Human Rights Council of the Ministry of Justice of Peru; copy of decision No. 026-97/DP of the Office of the Ombudsman of Peru, and copy of the amicus curiae presented by the Office of the Ombudsman while the case was being processed before the Commission. They were given until August 16, 2002, to submit these documents. 40. On August 9, 2002, Delia Revoredo Marsano de Mur, summoned by the President of the Court to present an expert report at the public hearing (supra para. 37), advised that for work-related reasons, she would be unable appear before the said hearing. 41. On August 21, 2002, the representatives of the alleged victims and their next of kin presented a communication to which they attached, inter alia, the documents requested by the Secretariat on August 1 and 5, 2002 (supra para. 39), and the document entitled “Attestation” of the Office of the Fifth Provincial Criminal Prosecutor of Lima, regarding case 506010105-2002-7-0, which mentions Oscar Ochoa Rivera, as defendant accused of the offence of falsification of documents, and