Appeals Court Upholds 21-Year Sentence For Joe Exotic

Law & Crime reports:

The zookeeper turned convicted would-be hitman who was launched into the national spotlight during a 2020 streaming series about big cat breeding will not be able to reduce his decades-long prison sentence.

Joe Exotic — real name Joseph Maldonado-Passage — had hoped to get his 21-year prison sentence knocked down by 10 years following a recalculation of his sentence based on a prior ruling from the appeals court.

Read the full article. Exotic last appeared on JMG in April 2022 when he filed to divorce his husband in order to marry his prison boyfriend.