Elizabeth Holmes actually doesn’t wish to go to jail. In an 82-page sentencing memorandum filed final week (through Gizmodo), Holmes’ legal professionals try to color the previous Theranos CEO in a extra constructive mild in a bid to scale back her sentencing.

Holmes, who claimed her firm had the expertise to run a whole bunch of exams based mostly on just some drops of blood, was discovered responsible of deceptive buyers in January. She was convicted on one rely of conspiracy to commit fraud and three counts of wire fraud, every of which carries a most sentencing of 20 years. Though she wasn’t discovered responsible of defrauding sufferers, some allege her defective exams yielded inaccurate outcomes, together with one affected person who claimed the take a look at falsely instructed her she was affected by her fourth miscarriage.

Holmes’ legal professionals are requesting a mere 18 months of home arrest for the Theranos founder, adopted by a supervised launch interval and mandated group service.

The doc is specified by sections that sound like one thing a excessive schooler would write on their school utility, akin to “Deep Curiosity in Making the World a Higher Place” and “Optimistic Affect on Others.” It opens with the hope that it’s going to encourage the choose to “study Ms. Holmes the human being” earlier than bringing down the hammer.

The doc describes numerous humanitarian efforts Holmes made as a baby, like her plans to assist victims of the Kosovo Battle throughout her sophomore yr of highschool and her efforts elevating reduction cash for an earthquake in Turkey. The submitting even features a quote when she was interviewed in her highschool’s newspaper, saying, “We now have the potential to reform and to forestall the horrors of this world if we merely study and act.”

Even describing her actions at Theranos, Holmes’ legal professionals are reluctant to explain her as a totally grown grownup. As an alternative, they describe her as a “teenager who had 4 quarters of faculty and a few laboratory analysis expertise underneath her belt however no enterprise or administration expertise.” When she was convicted at 34, the submitting reminds us she was “nonetheless a relative newcomer to the enterprise world.”

Holmes’ obvious immaturity is supported by a complete of 130 letters written by “people who really know Ms. Holmes,” together with a letter from her husband, Billy Evans, which has already made waves within the tabloid world. Amongst different particulars, it reveals that Holmes is presently pregnant and that her husky, Balto (which Holmes reportedly instructed individuals was a wolf), has been “carried away by a mountain lion” from their entrance porch.

Not surprisingly, Evans paints Holmes as a sufferer, saying she is “gullible, overly trusting, and easily naive” and can all the time depart “the final items of her favourite sweets for a home visitor.”