An Oklahoma district court vacated "Tiger King" docuseries star Joe Exotic's prison sentence Wednesday and ordered his resentencing, court filings obtained by Fox News show. Maldonado-Passage is two years into a 22-year prison sentence stemming from a failed murder-for-hire plot against his rival, big cat rescue sanctuary owner, Carole Baskin. Accordingly, we affirm the conviction but vacate the sentence and remand for resentencing," Phillips wrote in his opinion. CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR ENTERTAINMENT NEWSLETTERThe Netflix star was upset that Baskin, his outspoken critic, had won a million-dollar civil judgment against him. "Tiger King" extensively covered Maldonado-Passage’s repeated claims that Baskin allegedly killed her husband Don Lewis, who disappeared in 1997, and possibly fed him to her tigers.

Source: Fox News July 15, 2021 02:15 UTC