Elizabeth Holmes Trial Begins With Slow Weeding Out of Jury Pool

More than a dozen people were dismissed from serving on Elizabeth Holmes’s jury, as the first day of the Theranos Inc. founder’s criminal trial got underway in California.

About 50 potential jurors were questioned in the courtroom Tuesday by the judge, defense lawyers and prosecutors in a painfully slow process of weeding out people with apparent biases. Some of the people dismissed said they had significant exposure to media on Holmes, who has been the subject of multiple podcasts, documentaries and books since the collapse of the blood-testing company that made her briefly into a billionaire.

Others said they ...