"Tiger King" star Joe Exotic re-sentenced to 21 years in prison
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A federal judge has re-sentenced Joseph Maldonado-Passage, also known as Joe Exotic, to 21 years in prison for a murder-for-hire plot targeting animal activist Carole Baskin, according to CBS affiliate KWTV. The new sentencing shaves off one year of the "Tiger King" docu-series star's original 22-year sentence.
Maldonado-Passage was convicted in 2019 on 21 counts, including 19 counts of wildlife crimes and two for hiring hitmen to kill Baskin. He was sentenced to 22 years in prison in 2020, but later appealed the decision for what he argued were errors made on behalf of the court. He claimed that his two murder-for-hire convictions were wrongly separated and argued that Baskin was unfairly allowed to attend the entire trial despite her status as a witness.
A district court in 2021 upheld its decision to let Baskin attend the proceedings, but agreed with Maldonado-Passage that the court should have grouped the two murder-for-hire convictions.
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