From CNBC, March 12:
- Elizabeth Holmes revealed in a court filing that she’s expecting a child in July.
- Defense attorneys and prosecutors are asking the judge to delay her trial till August 31.
Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes, whose criminal fraud trial was scheduled to start in July, is asking for a delay because she’s pregnant.
In a court filing on Friday, her defense attorneys and prosecutors asked Judge Edward Davila to delay the start of her trial by six weeks to begin on August 31, 2021.
“On March 2, 2021, counsel for Defendant advised the government that Defendant is pregnant, with an expected due date in July 2021,” prosecutors and attorneys for Holmes write. “Both parties agree that, in light of this development, it is not feasible to begin the trial on July 13, 2021.”
No other details were immediately available.
The trial has already been delayed three times due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Holmes’ legal team was prepared to raise the issue of mental health as part of her defense strategy. In an earlier court filing, Holmes’ attorneys wrote they intend to introduce evidence “relating to a mental disease or defect or any other mental condition of the defendant bearing on.. the issue of guilt.”...
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Our last few posts on Holmes :
Theranos' Elizabeth Holmes Is Going To Try An Insanity DefenseEven a moron could have seen this coming.
She's not crazy, she's a sociopath.*
"Theranos founder Holmes phones in to court hearing solo after lawyers say she stiffed them: report"
What we have here is a sociopath, something that was apparent to anyone paying attention.**And on the sociopathy, way back in June 2015, four months before the WSJ's John Carryou:
The woman is a sociopath....
