Tiger King’s ‘Joe Exotic’ Wins Review of Sentence in Murder Plot

Joseph Maldonado-Passage, also known as Joe Exotic from the Netflix series “Tiger King,” will have his 22-year prison sentence recalculated after the Tenth Circuit ruled Wednesday that the lower court was required to group his two murder-for-hire convictions at sentencing.

The lower court properly allowed Carole Baskin, the woman he was accused of trying to kill, to attend the trial proceedings, despite her being listed as a government witness, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit also ruled.

Maldonado-Passage owned a large population of big cats and was convicted of trying to kill Baskin, an animal rights activist, ...