Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes, center, with her partner, Billy Evans, left, and mother, Noel Holmes, right, leaves national tribunal successful San Jose, Calif., Thursday, Dec. 23, 2021. The assemblage began their 3rd time of deliberations successful her fraud and conspiracy proceedings connected Thursday. (AP Photo/Nic Coury)

SAN JOSE, Calif. – The assemblage weighing fraud charges against erstwhile Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes volition resume their lengthy deliberations amid immoderate intrigue raised by a closed-door gathering among her attorneys, national prosecutors and the justice presiding the case.

U.S. District Judge Edward Davila held the “in camera" proceeding Tuesday greeting with 2 of Holmes' lawyers, Kevin Downey and Lance Wade, on with a 2 of the prosecutors, Jeffrey Schenk and Robert Leach, according to a tribunal filing precocious Tuesday night. Holmes was not contiguous astatine the 23-minute hearing.

The proceeding transcript has been sealed, leaving the topics that were discussed a mystery. But it it's not antithetic for plea statement discussions to instrumentality spot portion a assemblage deliberates implicit charges, particularly the longer it takes to scope a verdict.

Holmes, 37, 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. If she is convicted, Holmes faces up to 20 years successful prison.

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

Last week, the assemblage 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 jurors haven't provided immoderate clues arsenic to however acold agelong they are successful their deliberations during their archetypal 2 days of ongoing discussions this week.

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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