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Supreme Court turns away ‘Tiger King’ Joe Exotic’s appeal of murder-for-hire conviction

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Supreme Court turns away ‘Tiger King’ Joe Exotic’s appeal of murder-for-hire conviction

The Supreme Court on Monday declined to consider throwing out the 2019 conviction of Joe Exotic, the star of Netflix’s “Tiger King,” for his role in a murder-for-hire plot against rival animal rights activist Carole Baskin. The former zookeeper, whose real name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage, is serving a 21-year prison sentence after a federal jury…

Originally reported by The Hill