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 to attend his entire trial even though she was a listed government witness.
He’s got nine lives, so one won’t matter
God I hope he goes free.
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