Joshua Hardaway

Joshua Hardaway is the protagonist of the 2009 film Tyler Perry's Madea Goes To Jail, He is a district attorney who was engaged to the film antagonist Linda Davis. He is played by Derek Luke

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We first see Josh, his fiancee Linda and members of their wedding party and other attorneys watch as the head district attorney go over Madea's case files which includes hilarious mugshots of her through out her life, no one volunteers to take her case so the boss gives the case to Linda since she's won previous cases. In court he is assign the case of a childhood friend Cadence "Candy" Washington, a prostitute and a drug addict.

Since he knows the defendant? he gives the case to Linda, after court he meets his friend Ellen, a former prostitute who is now a minster who helps prostitues give off the streets and he introduces her to Candy but Candy snaps at her and Ellen tells her off and leaves. Candy questions Josh about why he bailed her out of jail and he says that she's a friend and he wants to help her.

But Cadence thinks that the reason Josh bailed her out was he wanted to have sex with her but he didn't want to so he takes her out for dinner and at the diner walks his fiancee, her maid of honor and his best friend/best man Chuck, he introduces Candy to Linda and Cadence can see that Linda wouldn't make a good wife for Joss so she says in front of her "''you're marrying her?" it'll never work!"'' Linda is offended by Cadence's words

Cadence leaves with her friend Donna, it's clear that Linda wasn't happy to see Joss with her. Linda questions why he was with her, Chuck tries to tell Josh not to answer but he does anyway telling her he's trying to help her out so Josh and Chuck tries to find her relatives online, Linda come in and ask if his finding a place where they can spend their honeymoon online but he tells her that he's searching for Cadence's family online and Linda becomes furious.

Linda says ugly things about Candy and threatens to leave, Josh convinces her to stay but when they're asleep in bed, Joss gets a call from Candy from a pay phone calling for help, Joss leaves the apartment he shares with Linda and goes to get her and brings her back home with him. Linda wakes up to find Candy asleep in the couch and wearing her robe, Linda is upset by this and she and Josh argues which includes her insults to Cadence, the agrument continues until Linda leaves slaming the door waking Candy.

Cadence retaliates by calling Linda "a princess" after she left (another word for spoiled brat), Josh and Cadence continues to catch up, Cadence tells how she got into prostitution after dropping out of college, Josh feels sympathy for her and starts to cry but she tells him not to cry for her and at least she gets paid for what she does. The next morning? Josh gets Ellen to help Cadence find a job but it dosen't go well with her. Linda forgives Josh and they walk to their apartment after seeing a movie only to see Cadence on their doorstep.

He carries her into the apartment and lays her down on the couch and puts a blanket on her. Linda becomes jealous and calls Cadence a drug addicted prostitute then leaves, Josh holds Cadence as she is struggling but the next morning? he wakes up to find Cadence gone, Josh and Ellen talks outside the courthouse, Ellen and he tells Ellen that Candy was a classmate of his in both school and college, he would defend her against bullies until 1 night in college? the football team threw a party. he had to leave the party early because he had a date leaving Cadence at the party.

When he came back from the date to find that the football team gang raped Cadence and left her in his room which is why he kept himself busy all those years and tried to make it up to her once he saw her again in court. He felt guilty over what happened and Cadence reminded him 3 times in the film that it happened but anyway Ellen tries to calm him down after he told her his story. Meanwhile Cadence didn't show up for her court hearing and because Linda falsified her, Madea and 5 other women's cases? the judge sentences her to 17 years in prison.

He visits Cadence in prison and she tells him that she forgives him for that horrible night in college, he kept writing her before the visit but she refuse to read his letters and write back, she wishes him well on his upcoming marriage to Linda and walks back to her cell. On his wedding day? Linda's friend catches him reviewing Cadence's file and then Chuck comes in and notices the same thing, as Josh talks? Chuck finally tells him what Linda has done and as soon as she walks down the aisle? he tells Linda in his own way that doesn't want to marry her and tells their guest exactly what she has done.

Josh visits Cadence in prison, he gives her a kiss and says he loves her and that he'll do anything to get her and the other women Linda had wrongfully convicted out of prison. Josh called popular radio stations like Tom Joyner and Rev. Al Sharpton and the story spreads like wildfire not only in the state of Georgia but across the nation. it cause Linda to be indicted by the jury for her actions in court. The film ends with Madea doing a dance called the Soulja Boy and walks out of prison a free woman while Cadence and Josh walks out of prison hand and hand.

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