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robert weisberg is a professor of criminal law at stanford university.e was using in her defence. it is almost a as if she is asking thejury to pick almost a as if she is asking the jury to pick whichever one works and one of them is the silicon valley story, but laypeople that is to say people who are not experts — have to understand that great innovation occurs through trial and error and we have to tolerate some error and that statement she weighed have been denounced those lies were aspirational. —— she may have lied. 0ther aspirational. —— she may have lied. other statements, she did not have other control of the company and a lot of the bad acts attributed to her were really done by her then partner andindeed really done by her then partner and indeed her personal partner, who is himself on trial and taking matters that further, she put on evidence that she had been emotionally accused in a very deleterious relationship with sunny balwani so he had taken her mental autonomy away and things she apparently said she had no control over, she had essent

well, robert weisberg is a professor of criminal law at stanford university and explained more about's asking the jury to pick whichever one that works. one of them is the silicon valley story, that laypeople — that is to say people who are not silicon valley experts — have to understand that great innovation occurs through trial and error — and we have to tolerate some error — and that statements she made have been denounced as lies were, shall we say, aspirational. but then we shift to some other stories she's told about herself, such as, gee, she really didn't have that much control of the company and that a lot of the bad acts attributed to her were really done by her then partner — and, indeed, her personal partner — a mr sunny balwani, who himself will be on trial. taking that a step further, she put on evidence that she had been emotionally abused in a very, very deleterious relationship with mr balwani, so he had virtually taken her mental autonomy away and things she apparently said she had no control over — she had essentially been brainwashed. and then, on some other matte

i'm joined now by professor robert weisberg from stanford university in california, who is an expert on the programme. thank you very much for coming on the programme-— the programme. thank you. extraordinary _ the programme. thank you. extraordinary case - the programme. thank you. extraordinary case coming l the programme. thank you. - extraordinary case coming towards it and now. can you just talk us through what the centre, what is at the heart of the prosecution case? the prosecutor put on a powerful evidence that ms holmes lie to investors, light to potential vendors of her product, such as the walgreens pharmacy chain, quite knowingly fabricated data that allegedly supported the efficacy of her product and generally swindled the world, if you will. some of the most devastating testimony came from her own former lab director, who reported, testify, that he told her a numerous times that the claims she was making were not at all supported by the data, that her lab was producing, and she tried to just brush them off and clearly was looking for a way out and some alternate version

as her three months trial is about to come to an end, i spoke to criminal law professor robert weisbergmes powerful evidence that this holmes lied to investors, lied to potential investors of her product which is the walgreens pharmacy chain put up quite knowingly fabricated data that allegedly supported the efficacy of her product. and generally swindled the world, if you will. it was some of the most devastating testimony came from her own former web director who testified that he told her on numerous times that the claim she was making were not at all supported by the data better lob three mac lab was producing. and she tried to brush them off and clearly was looking for a way out and some alternate version of the story that she could sell.— alternate version of the story that she could sell. given that then, that she could sell. given that then. what — that she could sell. given that then, what is _ that she could sell. given that then, what is the _ that she could sell. given that then, what is the alternate . then, what is the alternate version of the story, what is the main pilla