US-based technology corporation Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes will face her trial on Tuesday, with jury selection scheduled in a San Jose, California, courthouse, reports the Guardian.

Charged with six counts of fraud, Holmes’ medical startup is now defunct. Theranos was founded in 2003 and Holmes claimed it would revolutionise the medical testing space. She claimed that her new blood diagnostic technology could perform a range of tests on a small dose of blood. The claims were later revealed to be largely fabricated.

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The startup had reached a valuation of $10 billion. A report from Wall Street Journal and others revealed it was overstating the functions of its core technologies. Holmes and her former boyfriend and co-president Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani have been accused of defrauding both consumers who purchased and used the tests and investors who were convinced it would become profitable.

According to experts, it may take longer than usual to find jurors in a case that has been highly publicised.

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According to pre-trial filings, jurors can expect to hear from doctors who used the tests on their patients and from patients misled by Theranos results. Those include a woman whose test results falsely signaled a miscarriage despite a healthy pregnancy, a man who was falsely indicated to have prostate cancer, and two others who received false positive HIV test results.

However, lawyers for Holmes petitioned to have the scope of patient testimony severely limited.

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According to the Guardian, Holmes is expected to lean to argue that her role in the Theranos con was largely influenced by an allegedly abusive relationship with Balwani.

Balwani’s lawyers have called Holmes’s allegations “outrageous, salacious and inflammatory”. The 56-year-old businessman’s separate trial will begin in February 2022.

The court has set aside time into December for proceedings. Holmes has pleaded not guilty to all counts of wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud. If convicted, she faces up to 20 years in prison.