'Tiger King' star Joe Exotic, in Texas prison call, blasts 'two-party' justice system
foxnews.comBig cat wrangler and "Tiger King" star Joe Exotic says drug sentences should be capped at three years and that a "two-party" criminal justice system in the U.S.
is unfair to the accused as he challenges President Biden to a debate on the issue. He also told Fox News Digital in a phone call from the Federal Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas, that he is innocent of the attempted murder-for-hire charges and animal abuse for which he is serving a 21-year federal sentence.
Exotic, now 60, was convicted in 2019 on charges that included trying to hire an undercover FBI agent as a hit man to kill his Netflix series rival Carole Baskin.
Behind bars, Exotic said he gets nearly all news from the outside over the radio or via email. ‘Two-party justice system' "It's not a fair system," Exotic said. "It's a two-party justice system." He claimed that the system treats criminals more leniently in Democrat-controlled states — and too harshly in Republican ones. "It doesn't matter, if I'm in Oklahoma, and I get sentenced by a Republican judge, I'm going to jail forever," he said. "If I get a sentence in, you know, New York, by a Democratic federal judge, I'm out in three." He argued that plea bargains unfairly result in longer prison terms for low-income defendants than those who can afford private attorneys. "The poor people of this country are being blackmailed to plea bargain out," he said. "Use my case as an example.They indicted me with one charge to start with.
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