Elizabeth Holmes will leave federal court in San Jose, California in 2019.
Photographer: Michael Short / Bloomberg
Photographer: Michael Short / Bloomberg
Theranos Inc. founder Elizabeth Holmes is pregnant, her lawyers and the government said in a lawsuit asking for a six-week reprieve from her fraud trial that would begin July 13.
“On March 2, 2021, the defendant’s lawyer informed the government that the defendant is pregnant, with an expected due date of July 2021,” prosecutors and Holmes’ lawyers said in the statement Friday. “In light of this development, it is not feasible to start the trial on July 13, 2021, as currently planned.”
The two sides asked to start the trial on August 31 instead.
If U.S. District Judge Edward Davila in San Jose, California, agrees to the petition, it would be the fourth time Holmes’s trial has been postponed. It was initially scheduled to start in July 2020 and then moved to October before resetting again for March – both delays due to the pandemic. Davila has repeatedly pushed for the trial to start, hoping that conditions will improve sufficiently once more of the population is vaccinated.
Meanwhile, Holmes and prosecutors are in the thick of it over the evidence jurors will see and hear. Davila’s decisions will provide evidence, as will the strategies of the two sides as to which arguments lawyers will emphasize or be forced to defend.
The case is US v. Holmes, 18-cr-00258, US District Court, Northern District of California (San Jose).
Updates with previous delays in fourth paragraph