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Elizabeth Holmes to Accuse Ex-Boyfriend of Abuse at Trial

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Re: Elizabeth Holmes to Accuse Ex-Boyfriend of Abuse at Trial

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Here we go, it’s all his fault, she was just an innocent young woman. There’s a lot of talk that she will get away with it.

That she's representing herself doesn't bode well, that no law firm or lawyer seems willing to use this approach of hers.

That’s a misreading, I think. It mentions her legal team several times in the article.

Re: Elizabeth Holmes to Accuse Ex-Boyfriend of Abuse at Trial

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Holmes founded Theranos in 2003, Balwani joined in 2009. Is she going to argue that the lying to investors increased after Balwani joined? Because isn't it the case that she lied to investors from day 1 of Theranos existing?

> Holmes founded Theranos in 2003, Balwani joined in 2009.

They met in 2002:

> Balwani and Holmes met in Beijing on a trip through Stanford University's Mandarin program the summer before Holmes went to college. While there, the two struck up a friendship. While it wasn't clear when Balwani and Holmes became romantically involved, it appears to be around the time she dropped out of Stanford to start Theranos.

Source: https://www.businessinsider.com/theranos-former-president-su...

Re: Elizabeth Holmes to Accuse Ex-Boyfriend of Abuse at Trial

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Here we go, it’s all his fault, she was just an innocent young woman. There’s a lot of talk that she will get away with it.

That she's representing herself doesn't bode well, that no law firm or lawyer seems willing to use this approach of hers.

A man who represents himself has a fool for a client.

Re: Elizabeth Holmes to Accuse Ex-Boyfriend of Abuse at Trial

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I have to award creativity points for the defense. If it is true it is terrible and I'm sorry it happened to her. However it's a bit of a stretch to see how it would directly translate into bold faced lying to your investors and falsifying documents all along the way. It's not like she was a shrinking violet who had no drive and charisma of her own.

Re: Elizabeth Holmes to Accuse Ex-Boyfriend of Abuse at Trial

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"... plans to defend herself at her federal fraud trial starting next week by arguing that her ex-boyfriend, who was an executive at the company, emotionally and sexually abused her, impairing her state of mind at the time of the alleged crimes, according to newly unsealed legal filings in her case." She better have some really damn solid evidence otherwise the "he said, she said" of this is going to get nasty, and i…

In the absence of evidence a court will side with a woman.

Do you have evidence of this? I’m not asking because I don’t believe you, but because it seems incongruous with my understanding of how rape tends to have an extremely low conviction rate and overwhelmingly the victims of rape are women. I’d be interested in knowing the factors of how both the notion of “courts will side with a woman without evidence” and also “rape has an extremely low conviction rate” exist.

Re: Elizabeth Holmes to Accuse Ex-Boyfriend of Abuse at Trial

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Holmes founded Theranos in 2003, Balwani joined in 2009. Is she going to argue that the lying to investors increased after Balwani joined? Because isn't it the case that she lied to investors from day 1 of Theranos existing?

Also if you read "Bad Blood", in one of the early parts where she is accused of fraud in blood testing, her response is to plan to tell a story of how she was raped. This is a non-sequitir and damaging to real victims of rape.
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