Waiting for Elizabeth Holmes’ verdict? It may take some time Business and Economic News

If other cases of high-profile white collar in the U.S. are indicative, the verdict will not come quickly.

Elizabeth Holmes’ fraud trial jury is in its fifth day of deliberation, and could hardly be blamed for prosecutors who have been on trial for 14 weeks for being nervous.

But if other high-profile white-collar trials are indicative, Holmes’s jury may still be far from consensual.

It took Raj Rajaratnam’s jury in the case of the collection of illegal shares 12 days to reach the verdict, although he had to start with a substitute within six days because one of the jurors left him due to a medical condition. The Galleon Group co-founder was convicted of 14 felonies and the trial lasted six weeks from opening to closing.

Hollinger International Inc. CEO Conrad Black also had to wait 12 days until the jury’s guilty verdict after a 14-week fraudulent trial in Chicago. And even though Martin Shkrel’s trial of Pharma Bro lasted only four weeks, it took the jury five days to try three of the eight charges.

Here’s how other high-profile trials were conducted, all of which ended at least with a guilty verdict:

Another great verdict still being debated is that of the socialist Ghislaine Maxwell. Her alleged crimes of attracting and decorating underage abuse of her ex-boyfriend Jeffrey Epstein are not white-collar, however. His trial lasted three weeks and the jury is in its fifth day of deliberation.