With a courtroom packed full of supporters donning 'Free Joe Exotic' paraphernalia 🥴
, whose legal name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage, will serve 21 years in prison for the failed murder-for-higher plot targeting Carol Baskin, a federal judge announced today.
The new ruling reduces his sentence by one year, following an appeal by Maldonado-Passage’s legal team that the original trial wrongly treated two murder-for-hire convictions separately in calculating his prison term. In July, the 10th US Circuit Court of Appeals agreed that the court should’ve treated his two attempts at hiring different men to murder Baskin as one conviction, given they involved the same target. Today’s ruling was long-awaited for the quarantine season one superstar, who announcedThe second ruling comes a year after the former zookeeper was sentenced to 22 years in prison.
With a courtroom packed full of supporters donning “Free Joe Exotic” paraphernalia, it seems the fight is still not over. Baskin herself, also attended the proceedings, alongside her husband, though fearful that Maldonado-Passage could threaten her, given their long, and well-documented rivalry. “He continues to harbor intense feelings of ill-will toward me,” said the self-proclaimed animal rights activist and owner of Big Cat Rescue, whose legal battles have been similarly unsuccessful.
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