Holmes jury heads into fifth day of deliberations

SAN JOSE, Calif. – The assemblage weighing fraud charges against erstwhile Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes faces a 5th time of deliberations Tuesday. Holmes is facing 11 transgression charges alleging that she duped investors and patients by hailing her company’s blood-testing exertion arsenic a aesculapian breakthrough erstwhile successful information it was prone to chaotic errors.

The 8 men and 4 women connected the assemblage person been gathering successful a San Jose, California, national courthouse aft absorbing reams of grounds during a high-profile proceedings that has captivated Silicon Valley.

Last week, the jurors sent retired 2 notes to U.S. District Judge Edward Davila -- 1 making a swiftly rejected petition to instrumentality their instructions location with them for further survey and different that that allowed them a replay of a 2013 signaling of Holmes discussing Theranos’ dealings with prospective investors.

The assemblage completed Monday’s league without providing immoderate clues arsenic to however acold on it is successful its deliberations. Jurors are scheduled to resume their discussions Tuesday morning.

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The lawsuit has attracted worldwide attention. At its halfway is the emergence and autumn of Holmes, who started Theranos arsenic a 19-year-old assemblage dropout and past went connected to interruption done Silicon Valley's male-dominated civilization with her bold claims and fundraising savvy. She go a billionaire connected insubstantial earlier it each evaporated amid allegations she was much of a charlatan than an entrepreneur.

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