Indonesia V. Suharto
Instead of hearing from Suharto himself, the court listened to the head of his eight-man legal team read to the judges a long medical report, rife with references to the “frontal lobe,” “hypertension,” “stroke,” “loss of memory and mental processes.” The report had been submitted by a team of 23 physicians–all hired by Suharto. Their conclusion, according to Suharto’s lawyer, Felix Tampubolon, was that the former president “was too ill to face the court” as a result of two strokes he had suffered last year....