‘Tiger King’ Joe Exotic hires new legal team to file for fresh trial

nypost.com:

a new trial.Disappointed after failing to get a pardon from ex-President Donald Trump, the reality star — whose real name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage — confirmed Tuesday that he had hired Phillips & Hunt.The firm previously represented the family of Don Lewis, the missing husband of Baskin, who Maldonado-Passage has repeatedly said fed her ex to tigers at her Big Cat Rescue in 1997.

The case is still open.Baskin is also the reason he is in prison, serving 22 years in federal prison for his role in a failed murder-for-hire plot against her.“We are honored to announce that Joe has retained our firm,” his new attorney, John Phillips, said Tuesday in a video shared by the official Joe Exotic Twitter page.“We’re going to seek a new trial, and.