What prompted the roaring laughter coming from the deliberation room? Why were the jurors applauding? Why did lawyers on both sides of the case use a secret side entrance for a closed 23-minute discussion with the judge on Tuesday? Why haven’t jurors had more than two questions for the court?
ELIZABETH HOLMES PREGNANT TRIAL
Now, with the case in the jury’s hands, the long hours of deliberations have allowed trial watchers to indulge in speculation about what’s happening.
The slow trial pace prompted Adam Lashinsky, a columnist at Business Insider, to declare in early November that Judge Davila was “blowing it” by mistaking “dithering for deliberation.” Judge Davila has been methodical and lenient in his management of the case, allowing lawyers from both sides to spend hours debating procedural issues before most days of testimony began. As the trial dragged on, extra days were added to get through the prosecution’s list of 29 witnesses, one of whom spent six days on the stand. In its first week, a coronavirus scare canceled a day of proceedings. To avoid juror fatigue and build in extra time for any more pandemic-related delays, Judge Davila scheduled the trial’s proceedings to go only until 2 p.m. Two more scripted dramas are in the works. Elizabeth Holmes began in August, a book, a podcast and a documentary had been made about Theranos’s rise and fall. By the time jury selection for United States v. Holmes became pregnant, pushing things back six more weeks. Each count carries a maximum potential sentence of 20 years in prison.įirst, there were procedural issues. She has been charged with nine counts of wire fraud over statements made to investors and patients and two counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
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Regulators cracked down on the company, which led to its unraveling. This high-risk moment is the culmination of a case that began, in essence, six years ago when The Wall Street Journal uncovered that Theranos had misrepresented the abilities of its blood testing machines. Davila, who is overseeing the case, has expressed no urgency to the jurors, who were expected to resume deliberations on Thursday.
The jurors have been pulled from four counties in the federal court system’s Northern District of California. In Santa Clara County, where the trial is being held, the number of new daily coronavirus cases has risen more than 250 percent over the last 14 days.
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