ROLE REVERSAL: Criminal attorney Leonard R. Milstein...

ROLE REVERSAL: Criminal attorney Leonard R. Milstein has found himself on the other side of the defense table. The former Woodland Hills resident is accused of arranging for a jail inmate to give false testimony on behalf of a client facing a murder charge . . . Milstein gained prominence in the 1980s as chairman of a group that circulated petitions calling for San Fernando Valley schools to leave the Los Angeles district. (B1)

ODD CALLING: When Maury, Geraldo, Oprah or another talk show needs an out of the ordinary guest, they call Chris Darryn of Encino. After years of trying to make it in show biz himself, Darryn became an agent of the weird and the odd by founding the National Talk Show Guest Registry . . . The registry has 1,800 people with unlikely claims to fame, including a Burbank woman who recycles garbage into clothing and decorations. (B1)

PAJAMA PARTY: Women like Carol Convey, above, arrive in flannel pajamas and grown men show up in their Dr. Dentons once a month at Cafe 50’s, a normally sedate diner in Sherman Oaks. That’s because the establishment offers free meals to patrons who show up in traditional night clothes. . . . Sweats or thermal underwear won’t cut it. And sexy negligees are strictly banned. (B1)

LAWS OF THE LAND: Sometimes laws take long, complicated journeys before they actually become laws, while others follow relatively straight paths . . . A new law that prohibits the sale of knives or other stabbing weapons to anyone younger than 18 was brought to Councilman Hal Bernson by a woman in his northwest Valley district whose 13-year-old son had purchased three knives from a local store. (B2)

MENTAL EXERCISE: Patients in a Palmdale mental health program are working out life’s problems while teetering on a high wire or swinging from a trapeze. The program’s obstacle course uses 17 challenges from ropes to telephone poles and works as a catalyst for patients to break through roadblocks. (B16)