Elizabeth Holmes, Judge May Go Unmasked at Criminal Trial (1)

Elizabeth Holmes and the judge will likely be the only consistently unmasked participants at her criminal trial, with a surge in the delta variant creating much concern for the participants.

Holmes appeared in-person in federal court in San Jose, California, Monday for the first time since a spike in Covid-19 infections closed some courthouses across the U.S. Her attorneys and prosecutors were masked and behind plexiglass panels to lay down ground rules for her trial that’s scheduled to start at the end of the month.

U.S. District Judge Edward Davila, sitting perched above everyone else and behind his own ...