More from Denis Collins, this time on recognizable figures in the courtroom:
As celebrities go, the jury favorite seems to be NPR’s Nina Totenberg. Everyday Nina. She raises the class quotient considerably. My favorite court visitor was an old Post friend, Mike Isikoff of Newsweek (President Clinton and Monica Lewinsky may still have nightmares of him sneaking into their closet.) Many years ago in San Francisco, he stayed with us while reporting on drug policy for the Post. Driving back from an interview with a marijuana grower in Humboldt County, he told us he stopped to check his suitcase. Sure enough, the grower had “gifted” him a bag of Humboldt Lightning. Isikoff immediately returned it.
I said, “Damn, Mike, couldn’t you have waited til you got back here to look?”
As I sit here now, to the best of my recollection, I believe I was only joking.






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