On Monday, disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes will play certainly one of her final playing cards to keep away from a jail sentence when a federal decide questions a key prosecution witness who expressed post-trial regrets about testimony that helped persuade a jury to convict her for investor fraud.
That witness, former Theranos lab director Adam Rosendorff, made an uninvited go to to Holmes’ Silicon Valley dwelling in August. While he did not converse to Holmes instantly, Rosendorff advised her companion William Evans that “he tried to reply the questions actually however that the prosecutors tried to make everybody look unhealthy” and felt “he had executed one thing unsuitable,” in accordance to courtroom paperwork.
Prosecutors have scoffed on the notion that Rosendorff’s try to see Holmes casts any doubts on his testimony.
U.S. District Judge Edward mentioned throughout a Zoom listening to Friday that he intends to ask Rosendorff a number of questions on why he visited Holmes’ dwelling and whether or not the go to was pushed by any doubts concerning the testimony he gave below oath throughout six days of the trial final yr.
Davila emphasised that he anticipated the listening to to be transient and restricted in scope after quashing a subpoena from Holmes’ legal professionals searching for any non-privileged communications about his testimony. “This shouldn’t be going to be a fishing expedition,” Davila mentioned Friday,
Holmes, 38, is dealing with up to 20 years in jail for deceptive buyers concerning the progress her once-heralded startup Theranos was making with new blood-testing strategies. She was supposed to be sentenced Monday, however the decide postponed that listening to as soon as the Rosendorff questions arose. The decide set a brand new sentencing date for Holmes on Nov. 18.