Here’s why Elizabeth Holmes thinks she shouldn’t go to jail

Elizabeth Holmes actually doesn’t wish to go to jail. In an 82-page sentencing memorandum filed final week (via Gizmodo), Holmes’ attorneys try to color the previous Theranos CEO in a extra constructive gentle in a bid to scale back her sentencing.

Holmes, who claimed her firm had the expertise to run a whole bunch of assessments based mostly on just some drops of blood, was discovered responsible of deceptive buyers in January. She was convicted on one rely of conspiracy to commit fraud and three counts of wire fraud, every of which carries a most sentencing of 20 years. Although she wasn’t discovered responsible of defrauding sufferers, some allege her defective assessments yielded inaccurate outcomes, together with one affected person who claimed the take a look at falsely instructed her she was affected by her fourth miscarriage.

Holmes’ attorneys are requesting a mere 18 months of home arrest for the Theranos founder, adopted by a supervised launch interval and mandated neighborhood service.

The doc is specified by sections that sound like one thing a excessive schooler would write on their school software, comparable to “Deep Interest in Making the World a Better Place” and “Positive Impact on Others.” It opens with the hope that it’ll encourage the choose to “examine Ms. Holmes the human being” earlier than bringing down the hammer.

The doc describes varied humanitarian efforts Holmes made as a toddler, like her plans to assist victims of the Kosovo War throughout her sophomore yr of highschool and her efforts elevating reduction cash for an earthquake in Turkey. The submitting even features a quote when she was interviewed in her highschool’s newspaper, saying, “We have the potential to reform and to prevent the horrors of this world if we simply learn and act.”

Even describing her actions at Theranos, Holmes’ attorneys are reluctant to explain her as a completely grown grownup. Instead, they describe her as a “teenager who had four quarters of college and some laboratory research experience under her belt but no business or management experience.” When she was convicted at 34, the submitting reminds us she was “still a relative newcomer to the business world.”

Holmes’ obvious immaturity is supported by a total of 130 letters written by “individuals who actually know Ms. Holmes,” together with a letter from her husband, Billy Evans, which has already made waves within the tabloid world. Among different particulars, it reveals that Holmes is at the moment pregnant and that her husky, Balto (which Holmes reportedly told people was a wolf), has been “carried away by a mountain lion” from their entrance porch.

Not surprisingly, Evans paints Holmes as a sufferer, saying she is “gullible, overly trusting, and simply naive” and can all the time go away “the last pieces of her favorite chocolates for a house guest.”