History Characters / TrialAndError

** He even takes up ''owl training'' (an owl being the cause of Margaret's death), of all things, after the trial ends.

* HundredPercentAdorationRating: She is beloved by the people of East Peck. So much so that that the jury was openly rooting for her during her preliminary hearings.

* WeaponOfChoice: She has a tendency to throw her shoes at people who piss her off.

* WeaponOfChoice: Lavinia throws plates when she gets angry and she has a veritable arsenal of them around her house and in her purse so that she has ready access.

** Taken UpToEleven when [[spoiler:he thinks he's Lavinia's love child and tries to sound more sophisticated]].

* RantInducingSlight: In Season 2's accompanying podcast, Lavinia confesses to campaigning hard in the 1980s to make sure the incumbent governor of South Carolina lost by a landslide because the man gave her and her husband a toaster as a wedding gift (it wasn't on their registry).

* [[AmbiguouslyJewish Ambiguously Northeastern]]: Averted. It's made clear from his typically Jewish surname - and by certain East Peck citizens who insistently refer to him as a "Northeasterner" - that Josh is Jewish, albeit a non-practicing one. Josh does state (in euphemistic terms that Jeremiah could understand) that his father was Jewish and his mother converted to Judaism after they married. In Season 2, Lavinia goes so far as to say that his "people" make good entertainers.

* [[spoiler: OlderThanTheyLook]]: [[spoiler: She's actually two years older than she thought she was, part of Larry's deception surrounding her adoption.]]

* EverybodyCallsHimBarkeep: She refuses to address those who work for her by their names, preferring to use their job titles, due to [[FreudianExcuse her favorite childhood servant dying in a tragic accident]].

* [[spoiler:FauxAffablyEvil: After her trial, it's revealed she's a cold hearted sociopath and murderer, having killed Edgar and Amanda, and callously admitting as much to Josh when he confronts her about it, before shooting Dwayne in the chest with an arrow.]]

* [[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend He Is Not My Boyfriend]]: On the ''M-Town'' podcasts, she constantly has to assure her listeners that she and Josh do not have a romantic relationship.

* IncestIsRelative: Mentions his brother-cousin quite a bit, and that he also has a mom-sister.

* ItIsPronouncedTroPay: See EmbarrassingLastName.

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* {{Adorkable}}: His youthful enthusiasm makes him incredibly endearing. This is especially noticeable when he's praised by his boss Howard Mankiewicz.

* YourCheatingHeart: He was having an affair with Alphonso, his physical trainer. While everyone treats this as a scandal, he says that Margaret was fully aware of it and that they had an open marriage on condition that they tell each other about their respective affairs.

* BiTheWay: He freely admits to being attracted to both men and women and was having an affair with his male physical trainer.

** Taken UpToEleven when [[spoiler:he thinks he's Lavinia's love child and tries to speak more sound more sophisticated]].

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: He seems genuinely unable to understand how much trouble he's in and constantly focuses on seemingly trivial matters that distract his legal team from mounting a proper defense.

* [[AmbiguouslyJewish Ambiguously Northeastern]]: Averted. It's made clear from his typically Jewish surname - and by certain East Peck citizens who insistently refer to him as a "Northeasterner" - that Josh is Jewish, albeit a non-practicing one. Josh does state (in euphemistic terms that Jeremiah could understand) that his father was Jewish and his mother converted to Judaism after they married.

* CloudCuckoolandersMinder: Josh runs himself ragged trying to keep Larry from absent-mindedly saying things that make him look more guilty and dealing with last-minute bombshells Larry drops.

* ButtMonkey: If anything injurious happens, it's usually Dwayne who's on the end of it. For example, he's been assaulted repeatedly with a tazer by his former boss Rutger Hiss. Of course, some of it is self-inflicted such as when he attempted to throw himself through a plate glass window to test the theory that Margaret Henderson committed suicide; he didn't break the window but ended up severely hurting himself anyway. Or when he consumed hallucinogenic Ayahuasca to see if [[spoiler: Summer was in the right state of mind to possibly murder Margaret]] and completely freaks out, running naked through the woods.

-->'''Lavinia:''' His lost hurt me so greatly that I never learned another employee's name! Does that answer your question, ''Lawyer''?

* TrainingFromHell: His idea of training cops for the dangers police work is to ambush them in the bathrooms with a TASER.

* TheUnintelligible: his voice is so quiet and high pitched, you need to pay close attention to understand what he's saying. While everyone else in East Peck seem to understand him just fine, this causes considerable frustration for Josh, who cannot.

* OnlySaneMan: As an outsider to East Peck, she is one of the few who sees just how absurd life in the town can be.

* [[spoiler:FauxAffablyEvil: After her trial, it's revealed she's a cold hearted sociopath and murderer, having killed Edgar and Amanda, and callously admitting as much to Josh when he confronts her about it, before shooting Dwayne in the chest with an arrow.]]

* CloudCuckooLander: She's eccentric and acts fairly airheaded and oblivious, but it could just be an act to turn away suspicion. [[spoiler: confirmed to be the case in 2x5 and 2x6, when it's revealed she's actually a cold, heartless sociopathic murderer, having killed Edgar and Amanda without batting an eye, and apparently someone else, too)

[[folder: Atticus Ditto, Jr.

A captain with the East Peck Police Department and responsible for investigating the Henderson Murder. He also trained Dwayne to become a cop (and traumatized him in the process).