Elizabeth Holmes Trial: Jurors Unable to Reach Verdict on 3 Counts, Deliberations Resume

Jurors successful the Elizabeth Holmes fraud proceedings Monday told the tribunal they were incapable to hold connected a verdict connected 3 of the 11 national counts against the Theranos laminitis aft six-plus days of deliberations.

The assemblage sent a enactment to the tribunal Monday morning, informing the justice it was astatine an impasse connected those 3 counts, which were not specified. After the lawyers for each broadside debated briefly, U.S. District Judge Edward Davila instructed the assemblage to instrumentality to deliberations connected the 3 undecided counts.

Holmes, 37 and the laminitis of blood-testing startup Theranos, is facing up to 20 years successful situation if convicted.

The assemblage started its deliberations connected Dec. 20 and was successful its seventh time successful the assemblage country astatine a downtown San Jose courthouse, with vacation breaks mixed in.

Closing arguments started Dec. 16.

Holmes' defence lawyers rested their lawsuit connected Dec. 8 soon aft she walked disconnected the witnesser stand.

That gave Holmes the last accidental among the much than 30 witnesses who testified successful a high-profile trial that began 3 months ago successful the bosom of Silicon Valley. It’s the aforesaid locale wherever Holmes became a media sensation earlier Theranos collapsed successful ruins amid grounds that its ballyhooed blood-testing exertion was dangerously flawed.

Davila recessed the proceedings for a week to let clip for refining the instructions to the assemblage successful a analyzable lawsuit that began 3 1/2 years agone with Holmes’ indictment connected aggregate counts of fraud.

The abrupt extremity of the defense’s lawsuit came arsenic somewhat of a surprise. Holmes’ lawyers had indicated that they mightiness telephone connected a scientist to sermon the allegations of affectional and intersexual maltreatment Holmes had raised earlier successful her testimony against her erstwhile person and concern partner, Sunny Balwani, 56. Holmes was conscionable 1 of the 3 witnesses to attest for the defense, but she spent much than 25 hours connected the basal since she was sworn Nov. 19.

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