United States:
Elizabeth Holmes's Mixed Verdict Could Handicap An Appeal, Lawyers Say
11 January 2022
Morrison & Foerster LLP
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Christine Wong spoke to Wall Street
Journal about the verdict of the Elizabeth Holmes fraud
trial, where jurors' careful deliberations will make it harder
to argue that errors or bias affected the outcome.
"The mixed verdict actually speaks to how careful the
verdict really was," Christine said. "They really matched
up the evidence against the specific claims."
According to Christine, finding one or two errors in a case
related to evidence often isn't enough to win an appeal,
because the higher court can decide there was enough evidence in
favor of the conviction that the errors didn't matter.
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