After three months and dozens of witnesses, Elizabeth Holmes’s fate is about to be decided by 12 jurors.A defense lawyer was making his final closing argument Friday in the Theranos Inc. founder’s criminal fraud trial in San Jose, California. Prosecutors will have a chance to rebut, and then the jury can begin deliberations. Holmes is facing a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison if found guilty on any of 11 charges that she defrauded investors and patients in the blood-testing startup.Holmes’s attorney Kevin Downey argued there’s a “fundamental disconnect” in the government’s claim that she intentionally deceived investors about what her startup’s blood-testing analyzers could do.
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