Elizabeth Holmes' defense rests its case
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Elizabeth Holmes' defense rested its case Wednesday, shortly after the founder and former CEO of Theranos concluded her seventh day on the witness stand in her own criminal trial.
While the prosecution called 29 witnesses to testify, the defense's case relied almost entirely on Holmes. During her testimony, she offered up a complicated, and at times seemingly contradictory, portrayal of herself while at Theranos' helm. On the one hand, Holmes confirmed that the buck stopped with her at Theranos. On the other, she claimed she was a victim of a decade-long abusive relationship with the company's COO, Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani, who she said tried to control nearly every aspect of her life. (Balwani's attorneys have previously denied those allegations.)
"He impacted everything about who I was, and I don't fully understand that," Holmes said in a tearful testimony last week.
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