Tiger King Sentence SLASHED?

Published: July 21, 2021, 5 p.m.

b'A federal appeals court has ordered former zoo owner and \\u201cNetflix\\u201d star\\xa0Joe Exotic\\xa0to be re-sentenced for his conviction in a murder-for-hire plot. The \\u201cTiger King\\u201d star \\u2014 real name Joseph Maldonado-Passage \\u2014 was sentenced in January 2020 to 22 years in a federal lockup for trying to hire two men\\xa0to kill his nemesis, Big Cat Rescue owner Carole Baskin. A three-judge panel in Denver\\u2019s 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 \\xbd to just under 22 years, the panel wrote, not just under 22 years to 27 years in prison.\\n\\nJoining Nancy Grace Today:Darryl\\xa0Cohen\\xa0- Former Assistant District Attorney, Fulton County, Georgia, Defense Attorney,\\xa0Cohen, 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\\xa0Morgan\\xa0- Professor of Forensics Jacksonville State University, Author, "Blood Beneath My Feet", Featured on "The Piketon Massacre: Return to Pike County" on iHeartRadio Levi\\xa0Page\\xa0- Crime Online Investigative Reporter, Host, "Crime and Scandal" True Crime Podcast, YouTube.com/LeviPageTV'