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FILE - This file photo provided by the Santa Rosa County Jail in Milton, Fla., shows Joseph Maldonado-Passage, also known as "Joe Exotic." A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday, July 14, 2021, that “Tiger King” Joe Exotic should get a shorter prison sentence for his role in a murder-for-hire plot and violating federal wildlife laws. (Santa Rosa County Jail via AP, File) Previous Next Wednesday, July 14, 2021 7:10 pm Court orders shorter sentence for 'Tiger King' Joe Exotic COLLEEN SLEVIN | Associated Press   DENVER – A federal appeals co...

Print A federal court decision just broke in favor of Joseph Maldonado-Passage, a.k.a. Joe Exotic: His 22-year sentence has been vacated and will be reconsidered. His conviction on charges of murder-for-hire and wildlife crime? That will stand. “We affirm Maldonado-Passage’s conviction but vacate the sentence and remand for resentencing,” the 10th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals said Wednesday in a decision that pleased the former tiger owner’s attorney, as it will likely mean a shorter federal prison term. Maldonado-Passage, who gained early-pandemic fame via the Netflix docuseries �...

Close In this Aug. 28, 2013, file photo, Joseph Maldonado-Passage, also known as Joe Exotic, is seen at the zoo he used to run in Wynnewood, Okla. A federal judge in Oklahoma has ordered the new owners of the Oklahoma zoo featured in Netflix's "Tiger King" documentary to turn over all the lion and tiger cubs in their possession, along with the animals' mothers, to the federal government. U.S. District Judge John F. Heil III issued the order last week in the case against Jeffrey and Lauren Lowe and the Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park based on claimed violations of the Enda...

By Carma Hassan, CNN Joseph Maldonado-Passage, known as Joe Exotic on the 2020 Netflix docuseries “Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness,” will be resentenced, according to a court opinion filed Wednesday. The US 10th Circuit Court of Appeals vacated Maldonado-Passage’s 264-month prison sentence, which was handed down last year for the murder-for-hire plots involving animal rights activist Carole Baskin as well as multiple wildlife violations. Maldonado-Passage had filed an appeal arguing that his murder-for-hire convictions should be overturned because the trial court allowed Baskin t...

Joe Exotic will be resentenced as the result of a court order filed this week. The Tiger King star has been in jail for conspiracy to commit the murder of his rival Carole Baskin. Legal proceedings figured heavily into the Netflix documentary series that took the world by storm last year. CNN reports that the 10th Circuit Court of appeals have vacated his prison sentence following an appeal filed by his representation to have the convictions overturned. The legal team for the Tiger King star is nothing short of thrilled with this decision. They’ve been trying to make headway on getting hi...