(CNN) Joseph Maldonado-Passage, known as Joe Exotic on the 2020 Netflix docuseries "Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness," will be resentenced, according to a court opinion filed Wednesday. The US 10th Circuit Court of Appeals vacated Maldonado-Passage's 264-month prison sentence , which was handed down last year for the murder-for-hire plots involving animal rights activist Carole Baskin as well as multiple wildlife violations. Maldonado-Passage had filed an appeal arguing that his murder-for-hire convictions should be overturned because the trial court allowed Baskin to attend his entire trial even though she was a listed government witness. The panel affirmed Maldonado-Passage's conviction, finding that the district court acted within its discretion in allowing Baskin to stay in the courtroom as a crime victim. However, the panel ruled that the district court "erred by not grouping the two murder-for-hire convictions at sentencing."

Source: CNN July 15, 2021 01:55 UTC