Holmes jury to take break after six days of deliberation

SAN JOSE, Calif. — The assemblage weighing fraud charges against erstwhile Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes departed tribunal Wednesday without reaching a verdict aft six days of deliberations. It won’t resume discussions until aft the upcoming New Year’s vacation weekend.

The 8 men and 4 women connected the assemblage had been expected to proceed deliberations connected Thursday morning, but a tribunal filing aft they near disclosed they volition beryllium taking a interruption until Monday. There was nary mentation for the determination to intermission deliberations. The assemblage had already been scheduled to beryllium disconnected Friday, a national tribunal holiday.

The latest circular of discussions occurred against a backdrop of intrigue raised by a closed-door gathering aboriginal Wednesday involving Holmes’ attorneys, and the justice presiding implicit 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. The astonishment determination to instrumentality Thursday disconnected whitethorn besides person been a focal point.

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.

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 Judge Davila — 1 making a swiftly rejected petition to instrumentality their instructions location with them for further survey and different that allowed them a replay of a 2013 signaling of Holmes discussing Theranos’ dealings with prospective investors.

The jurors didn’t supply immoderate inkling of their advancement successful deliberations 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.