Tiger King's Joe Exotic jailed for 21 years after resentencing
manchestereveningnews.co.ukTiger King star Joe Exotic has been jailed for 21 years after being resentenced for his part in a murder-for-hire plot. Former Oklahoma zookeeper Exotic — whose real name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage — was resentenced after a federal appeal court ruled that he should get a shorter prison sentence.
He was originally sentenced in January 2020 to 22 years in federal prison after being convicted of trying to hire two different men to kill Florida animal rights activist Carole Baskin. READ MORE: Did a celebrity go to your Greater Manchester high?
Find out the schools where famous faces went to In July, a three-judge panel of the 10th US Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver found that the trial court wrongly caluclated his prison term under sentencing guidelines.
The appeals court panel said his advisory sentencing range should be between 17-and-a-half years and just under 22 years rather than between just under 22 years and 27 years in prison, as the trial court had calculated.
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