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Elizabeth Holmes seeks to avoid prison for Theranos fraud

Elizabeth Holmes, who was convicted in January of defrauding investors in her blood-testing startup, asked an American judge not to sentence her to imprisonment.

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In a Thursday night court filing, lawyers for Holmes asked that she receive 18 months in home confinement, followed by community service, at her Nov. 18 sentencing before U.S. District Judge Edward Davila in San Jose, California. The lawyers said prison time was unnecessary to deter future wrongdoing, calling the 38-year-old Holmes a "singular human with much to give" and not the robotic, emotionless "caricature" seen by the public and media.