Joe Exotic From ‘Tiger King’ To Be Resentenced In Murder-For-Hire Case
deadline.comJoseph Maldonado-Passage, aka Joe Exotic, the subject of the wildly popular Netflix docuseries Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness that detailed the raconteur animal handler’s role in a murder-for-hire plot against rival animal-rights activist Carole Baskin, is getting resentenced for the crime.A ruling Wednesday in the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in Denver did not vacate Exotic’s 2020 conviction on two counts of hiring hitmen to murder Baskin, for which he was sentenced to 22 years in prison as part of a litany of charges that included wildlife crimes.But the three-judge panel ruled that the original trial court improperly treated the murder-for-hire counts as separate rather than as one, after hearing arguments
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