How Long Will the Elizabeth Holmes Jury Deliberate?

The much-anticipated infinitesimal has arrived.

After astir 4 months successful court, the assemblage successful the proceedings of the erstwhile Silicon Valley superstar Elizabeth Holmes began deliberations connected Monday. The radical of 8 men and 4 women volition determine whether Holmes — whose blood-testing company, Theranos, collapsed successful scandal — should beryllium convicted of 11 counts of fraud-related charges.

We don’t cognize however agelong the jurors volition instrumentality to get astatine their conclusion. The soonest the verdict could travel is today: They are scheduled to reconvene successful a national courthouse successful San Jose astatine 8:30 a.m. There are nary tribunal proceedings connected Wednesday, but the assemblage would resume connected Thursday if needed.

The jurors indispensable scope a unanimous decision, and failing to bash truthful could effect successful a mistrial. Some ineligible experts person said that longer deliberations suggest things whitethorn spell Holmes’s way.

If convicted, Holmes faces up to 20 years successful prison. The sentencing would travel astatine a aboriginal date.

Since opening successful precocious summer, Holmes’s proceedings has dragged connected for weeks longer than primitively expected. (You tin drawback up with my colleagues’ stories connected opening statements, James Mattis’s testimony, the prosecution’s arguments, the defense’s case and closing arguments.)

Arguably the astir stunning infinitesimal of the proceedings came toward the end, erstwhile Holmes took the basal successful her ain defense. Over respective days, she presented her mentation of Theranos’s downfall, saying that she believed the company’s exertion worked and that she had been controlled by Ramesh Balwani, her erstwhile concern partner.

Balwani, who was besides her longtime fellow and faces a abstracted proceedings adjacent year, had controlled each facet of her life, Holmes testified. She besides accused him of intersexual abuse, which helium has denied.

On the stand, Holmes cried and her dependable broke. She said she had begun to trust connected Balwani, who is astir 20 years older than her, aft she had been raped portion a pupil astatine Stanford.

Though it was hard to work jurors’ expressions done their masks, the grounds awoke a sleepy courtroom, my colleagues told me.

“The prosecution’s lawsuit has been each astir presenting cold, hard facts,” said Erin Griffith, who has been covering the trial. “Holmes’s grounds introduced emotion and narrative. It is surely much memorable to jurors than the details of a nett and nonaccomplishment connection oregon an immunoassay validation report.”

A condemnation for Holmes could nonstop daze waves done Silicon Valley and scare executives into treading much lightly erstwhile pitching to investors. But it’s imaginable an acquittal could person the aforesaid result.

Take Ellen Pao, different tech executive. In 2015, Pao lost her favoritism lawsuit against the task superior steadfast Kleiner Perkins, but her lawsuit inactive brought longstanding sex issues to the aboveground and forced firms to commencement making changes, Griffith pointed out.

“The Holmes proceedings could person a akin effect, careless of its outcome,” Griffith told me. “Or, start-ups could support raising much and much wealth astatine higher valuations with little advancement to show, arsenic they person for the past twelvemonth and a half.”

Only clip volition tell.

For more:

• The verdict connected the Holmes proceedings makeover.

• How Holmes soured the media connected Silicon Valley.

• The Holmes proceedings exposes investors’ carelessness.

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