An Oklahoma district court vacated "Tiger King" docuseries star Joe Exotic's prison sentence Wednesday and ordered his resentencing, court filings obtained by Fox News show.
Exotic, also known as Joseph Maldonado-Passage, is the former owner of an Oklahoma zoo documented in the Netflix original hit series "Tiger King," which hit tens of
Maldonado-Passage is two years into a 22-year prison sentence stemming from a failed murder-for-hire plot against his rival, big cat rescue sanctuary owner, Carole Baskin.
Circuit Judge Gregory Phillips reaffirmed Maldonado-Passage's 2018 federal indictment on 21 counts including wildlife crimes and two murder-for-hire plots but said that because Baskin attended trial proceedings that did not group Maldonado-Passage's two murder-for-hire convictions involving the same victim together – as required by federal guidelines – Maldonado-Passage's current conviction must be vacated.