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A US FEDERAL appeals court has ruled 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.
Joe Exotic, whose real name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage, was sentenced in January 2020 to 22 years in federal prison after being convicted of trying to hire two different men to kill animal rights activist Carole Baskin.
A three-judge panel for the US Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit in Denver found that the trial court wrongly treated those two convictions separately in calculating his prison term under sentencing guidelines.
The blond mullet-wearing zookeeper, known for his expletive-laden rants on YouTube, was prominently featured in the popular Netflix documentary Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem And Madness.
The panel agreed with Maldonado-Passage that the court should have treated them as one conviction at sentencing because they both involved the same goal of killing Baskin, who runs a rescue sanctuary for big cats in Florida.
According to the ruling, the court should have sentenced Maldonado-Passage to somewhere between 17-and-a-half years and just under 22 years in prison, rather than between just under 22 years and 27 years in prison.
The court ordered the trial court to re-sentence Maldonado-Passage.
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I’m remember when Ciara went missing, so sad her mother passed without finding justice for Ciara or being able to bury her.
@LittleBee: So sad for her Mother and now family no closer thanks to the man never closed the case
Fair play to this Detective..well dine
It’s so sad her mother passed away without finding some sort of peace for want of a better word I would like to believe that heaven is real and they are together again
Surely as an investigator the most important thing is to find the culprit and get him charged . Not “ do you best “. I’m sure he did try his best but he neither found the body nor the culprit. I wouldn’t be highlighting that in a book.
@DB: Would you be happier if he had fitted him up?
@Joe Bloggs: that’s ridiculous of course not. His job is to find and prosecute.legally,By the fact he didn’t prosecute he didn’t find.You cannot blame people without evidence.That’s the whole point . No body returned no culprit prosecuted ,They are the facts . I’m not saying whether he did a good or bad job but end result still the same .
@DB: You obviously feel that he didn’t do a good job, otherwise you wouldn’t have made comment on it.
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