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Jun. 7, 2021

Prosecutors object to Theranos founder’s juror questions

Prosecutors said a jury questionnaire proposed by Elizabeth Holmes’ attorneys was unprecedented in the Northern District of California for a fraud case.

Prosecutors object to Theranos founder’s juror questions
Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of the blood-testing company Theranos, in Palo Alto, Calif., Dec. 4, 2015. (New York Times News Service)

The battle over the jury that will decide Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes’ fate was joined by prosecutors who objected to a long list of questions proposed by her defense counsel as “vastly overbroad and invasive.”

Holmes, who is scheduled to go to trial in late August on charges of defrauding investors and consumers and lying about the company’s blood testing technology, is pushing to get personal information about prospective ju...

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