The jury in the Elizabeth Holmes trial hit a speed bump on Monday, as they were “unable to come to an unanimous verdict on three of the counts.”
The jurors in Holmes’s case are required to provide a verdict on the 11 counts she faces. Holmes, 37, is an entrepreneur accused of duping investors out of hundreds of millions of dollars and lying to patients about her company’s blood testing technology, according to ABC News.
Judge Edward. J. Davila read the jury a deadlock instruction and sent the 12 back to the deliberation room to continue weighing the three counts of fraud. If the jury cannot come to a unanimous verdict on the three counts, a mistrial will be declared on those charges, the outlet reported.
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Holmes faces nine counts of wire fraud and two counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Her trial began deliberations on Dec. 20. Closing arguments in her trial ended on Dec. 17.
Holmes allegedly conned investors, business partners, and countless patients into believing her now defunct company Theranos invented a better way to test blood. Instead of using needles to draw multiple vials of blood from a vein, Holmes falsely claimed Theranos had the technology to scan for hundreds of diseases and other health problems with just a few drops of blood from a finger prick.
Holmes and her former boyfriend and onetime business partner, Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, were arrested in 2018, with both having pleaded not guilty. If convicted, Holmes could spend 20 years in prison.
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Balwani is scheduled to go on trial next year.
