For the past several months, Elizabeth Holmes, founder of the Startup Theranos, has been

on trial.

Holmes faced 11 charges that she ran a year-long fraud scheme against investors and patients.

Her company had been a Silicon Valley darling.

It raised hundreds of millions on the promise that it could eliminate invasive blood tests

with technology that could use just a few drops of blood.

But Theranos didn't do what Holmes promised.

Yesterday, after days of deliberation, the jury in the case asked to talk to the judge.

Our colleague Sarah Randazzo was there.

Monday was an interesting day.

So all of last week on the three days of the jury deliberated, we sat around.

From morning till afternoon, they didn't say anything.

They were just back there working and then we get a note saying, hey, they left for the

day.

So we came back Monday not knowing if we were going to expect that again.

And then in the morning, we got a note.

And so everyone piled into the courtroom and we heard that the jury was stuck on three

counts.

And the judge called them all in and he read what's known as an Alan Charger.

It's kind of nicknamed a dynamite charge sometimes, which is basically a legal principle that

he gives to them saying, hey, keep trying.

There's no hurry.

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