History WebVideo / TheTrialOfTimHeidecker

** Upon learning that one of the Electric Sun Twenty died of a heroin overdose, he insinuates that the remaining nineteen all died of unrelated causes and the vape pens are all coincidental.
** He continually brings up the "China connection," or the belief that he was conned and sold poisonous goods by a Chinese chemical company, for which he has zero evidence.
** He attempts to prove Gregg Turkington is an unreliable witness because he mixed up the plot of ''Star Trek II'' and ''Star Trek IV''.

** Making wild conjecture during his opening and closing statements, to the point where the judge has to remind the jury that such statements aren't admissible as evidence.

** Arguing directly with the prosecution's lawyers, then with the judge when he tells Tim to stop arguing with the prosecution's lawyers.

** Judge Szymczyk tells the Jury not to take Tim's outbursts into account when deciding his guilt in the felony murders.

* JuryAndWitnessTampering: In spades. Besides paying several witnesses in hopes of getting favorable testimony, Tim outright threatens Mark Proksch for testifying against him.
* KangarooCourt: Tim feels that the trial is one, and refers to it as such several times.

* BackfireOnTheWitnessStand: All of Tim's witnesses are either ineffective at best or actively harmful to his case at worst.

* FreezeFrameBonus: Before the courtroom proceedings start on Day 5, Gregg can be seen walking up to Miriam Waymon and giving her a (likely unrequested and unwanted) VHS copy of the 2003 movie ''Levity''. She politely thanks him and puts it in her suitcase.

* AccidentalMisnaming: Tim repeatedly botches the pronunciation of Judge Szymczyk's name, and spells Orion Jaxx as "Orion Jacks."

* PenultimateOutburst: Judge Szymczyk gives several final warnings to Tim for his behavior in court. Tim [[TemptingFate doesn't change his behavior]] and gets hit with two "contempt of court" charges.

* IronicEcho: When Orion Jaxx says his original praise for the festival was invalidated after he got stiffed and twenty concertgoers died, Tim tries to downplay it and says "That's for the jury to decide." Later, when Jaxx's testimony becomes unfavorable and Tim tries to have it stricken from the record, Judge Szymczyk smugly tells him, "That will be up to the jury, Mister Heidecker."

* DisregardThatStatement: Judge Szymczyk tells the Jury not to take Tim's outbursts into account when deciding his guilt in the felony murders.

* CourtroomAntics: Tim commits one practically every time he opens his mouth.

-->'''Miriam Waymon:''' "Your daughter was seventeen when she left you."
-->'''Amanda Davis:''' "Yes, she was seventeen."
-->'''Miriam Waymon:''' "If there was anything you could say to her, what would that be?"
-->'''Tim Heidecker:''' "Objection, speculative!"

** The prosecution has several, most notably footage of Dr. San's interrogation where he admits that he and Tim were partners the entire time.

* BadBoss: Tim is incredibly abusive toward Mark Proksch, including claiming he has the Constitutional right to beat his employees.

** He attempts to discredit all of Gregg Turkington's testimony by proving he's wrong about the plot of ''Star Trek IV''.

* HollywoodLaw: Largely averted. While there are some concessions for storytelling, the series sticks rather closely to actual legal proceedings. This is helped by several of the actors having actual legal backgrounds.

* TheSheriff: One of the witnesses is Detective Bill Ellis of the San Bernardino Sheriff's Department.

* ThatWasObjectionable: Many of Tim's objections are for baseless reasons, assuming he even offers a reason.
* TokenReligiousTeammate: Rosetti is able to get Manuel to admit the confession note is a forgery from Tim by appealing to his Catholic faith.

** The debate over whether ''[[Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan Star Trek II]]'' or ''[[Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome Star Trek IV]]'' is set in San Francisco has been going on for 6 years by the time of the miniseries, stretching all the way back to season one of the ''On Cinema'' podcast.

* FelonyMurder: Tim faces twenty counts of felony murder as his charges,

* ForgedMessage: Dr. San's alleged [[DeathbedConfession confession note]] where he admits full responsibility and says Tim is innocent

* NotProven: [[spoiler:Tim is ultimately not found guilty because the jury couldn't reach a unanimous verdict, and a mistrial is declared.

* JuryAndWitnessTampering: Tim repeatedly threatens Mark Proksch's job and livelihood for testifying against him in court.

Over the course of the trial, Heidecker chooses to represent himself, and he constantly flounders due to his short temper, lack of tact and decorum, and total absence of legal knowledge. He uses the court to settle personal scores, such as a long-running debate with his ''On Cinema'' co-host [[Creator/NeilHamburger Gregg Turkington]] about the setting of ''[[Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome Star Trek IV]]''. He also attempts to shift the blame for the "Electric Sun Twenty's" deaths onto anyone but himself, including the paramedics, Doctor San, Mark Proksch, the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department, and the Chinese company that sold him the chemicals.

* SmokingGun: Tim treats his forged confession note from Dr. San like it is one.

** Tim tries to