Judges hear Elizabeth Holmes’ appeal of fraud conviction while she remains in Texas prison WHIO TV 7 and WHIO Radio [Video]

SAN FRANCISCO — (AP) — A panel of federal judges spent two hours on Tuesday wrestling with a series of legal issues raised in an attempt to overturn a fraud conviction that sent Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes to prison after a meteoric rise to Silicon Valley stardom.

The hearing held in the San Francisco appeals greed and hubris court came nearly two-and-half years after a jury convicted Holmes for orchestrating a blood-testing scam that became a parable about greed and hubris in Silicon Valley. Holmes’ instrument of deception was Theranos, a Palo Alto, California, startup that she founded shortly after dropping out of Stanford University in 2003 with her sights set on revolutionizing the health-care industry.

Holmes, who did not attend the hearing, is currently serving an 11-year sentence in a Bryan, Texas prison.

But Holmes’ parents and her partner — the father of her two young children — Billy Evans sat in the front row of the …