A federal appeals court in San Francisco has upheld a fraud conviction against Elizabeth Holmes. The disgraced founder of the blood-testing startup Theranos is serving an 11-year prison sentence for defrauding investors with false claims of what her company could achieve.

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes earlier this week received a denial for her appeal to overturn her conviction, and legal experts weighed in on what legal steps she can still take.

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed the convictions of former Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes, and her business partner and former lover Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani, in their entirety.