Tiger King Sentence SLASHED?

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🗓️ 21 July 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

A federal appeals court has ordered former zoo owner and “Netflix” star Joe Exotic to be re-sentenced for his conviction in a murder-for-hire plot. The “Tiger King” star — real name Joseph Maldonado-Passage — was sentenced in January 2020 to 22 years in a federal lockup for trying to hire two men to kill his nemesis, Big Cat Rescue owner Carole Baskin. A three-judge panel in Denver’s Court of Appeals ruled that the original sentence was issued using the wrong sentencing guidelines. The judges found the trial court should have treated the murder-for-hire convictions as one since they both involved the goal of having Baskin killed. The proper sentencing range should have been between 17 ½ to just under 22 years, the panel wrote, not just under 22 years to 27 years in prison. Joining Nancy Grace Today:Darryl Cohen - Former Assistant District Attorney, Fulton County, Georgia, Defense Attorney, Cohen, Cooper, Estep, & Allen, LLC, www.ccealaw.comDr. Angela Arnold - Psychiatrist, Atlanta GA www.angelaarnoldmd.com, Expert in the Treatment of Pregnant/Postpartum Women Joe Scott Morgan - Professor of Forensics Jacksonville State University, Author, "Blood Beneath My Feet", Featured on "The Piketon Massacre: Return to Pike County" on iHeartRadio Levi Page - Crime Online Investigative Reporter, Host, "Crime and Scandal" True Crime Podcast, YouTube.com/LeviPageTV

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0:00.0	I'm Cheryl McCollum, host of the brand new co-case podcast, Zone 7.
0:04.1	We're going to be talking to family members, detectives, prosecutors, and nationally recognized
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0:22.4	Listen to Zone 7 on the I Heart Radio app, the Apple Podcast app, or wherever you listen to
0:28.3	your favorite podcast.
0:35.7	Bomchill in the last days, Joe Exotic, a.k.a Tiger King, has had his prison sentence.
0:46.5	Technically vacated.
0:48.8	The Tiger King may be out of prison sooner than expected.
0:59.9	Had appeals court vacated Joe Exotic's sentence yesterday, John Phillips, the local attorney
1:04.8	who represents him, says that this marks the start of justice. Exotic was serving 22 years in
1:09.8	prison after trying to hire two different men to kill Carol Baskin and wildlife violations,
1:14.8	according to the investigation. It was found that the trial court, however, wrongly treated
1:19.3	the two convictions separately when calculating his prison time. Phillips said that they shouldn't
1:24.4	have been separated because they involved the same victim. Exotic has maintained his innocence.
1:29.4	You know, I find that a little bit confusing. You were hearing Jennifer Waw WJXT news for Jaxx.
1:36.0	Now, as you will recall, this was a multi-count indictment, including attempts to
1:43.3	murder or hashing a plan to murder or threaten Carol Baskin, what he perceived to be his
1:50.1	chief rival in the private zoo, I guess you would call them, world. But there were also federal
1:57.7	counts of mistreatment of animals, meetings, starving, shooting animals. It was a very complex
2:06.0	indictment. So to you, Darryl Cohen, former prosecutor, now defense attorney with Cohen Cooper,
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