On March 6, 2007, the day of the guilty verdict, Collins was the first juror to give media interviews about his experience as a juror in the trial.
As reported in CNN Newsroom, and subsequently on Larry King Live, and by various other television networks, including MSNBC (on Scarborough Country), and as he elaborates later in his HuffPo article, Collins "said he and fellow jurors found that passing judgment on Libby was 'unpleasant.'