DENVER (CN) — A former public defender who claims he was fired for reporting that he was saddled with too many cases told a Denver judge Monday about his 130-client caseload — and his realization that maintaining such a workload meant risking violating his professional code.
“Even when you’re in trial all day, you just keep trying,” Travis Weiner testified. “You’re at the office at 8:00 at night, you have 30 missed calls and a billion missed emails, and some people will say you should stay until 10:00.”
Before becoming an attorney, Weiner served in the Army, leaving in 2009 as a sergeant with a Purple Heart and shrapnel embedded in his neck from a tour in Iraq…