The newspaper reported that Ellis said she was fired because “she refused to bring a case to trial that she believed was an unethical prosecution.” The district attorney’s office told the Journal that Ellis handled traffic cases and other misdemeanors.
Ellis is slated to appear before the Colorado legislature’s Legislative Audit Committee on Tuesday to testify at a Republican-called “The number of cases in which committed an irreparable, egregious act was not significant compared to the total number of cases she processed,” the state labor department document says. Ultimately, the state labor department affirmed that Ellis was eligible for unemployment benefits despite having been fired, which could have precluded her from being able to collect them.