Joe Exotic should receive shorter prison sentence, federal appeals court rules

Exotic was sentenced in January 2020 to 22 years after being convicted of trying to hire two different men to kill Carole Baskin

A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that Tiger King's 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, and was the star of a docuseries that became a big hit during the height of the coronavirus pandemic last year, was sentenced in January 2020 to 22 years in federal prison after being convicted of trying to hire two different men to kill animal sanctuary owner Carole Baskin.