{"id":291039,"date":"2020-04-16T15:57:50","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T21:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1141669"},"modified":"2020-04-16T15:57:50","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T21:57:50","slug":"see-joe-exotics-handwritten-letter-to-judge-in-89-million-false-arrest-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/see-joe-exotics-handwritten-letter-to-judge-in-89-million-false-arrest-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"See Joe Exotic’s Handwritten Letter to Judge in $89 Million False Arrest Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tiger King<\/em> star Joe Exotic<\/strong> has scored a small legal victory in his $89 million false arrest lawsuit. <\/p>\n

According to court documents obtained by E! News, a judge granted Joe’s (whose real name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage<\/strong>) request for an extension to file an objection in the civil case. In a letter submitted by Joe, which you can read below, the former zookeeper writes from a Texas prison medical facility, where he was placed in quarantine due to coronavirus concerns. <\/p>\n

“Sorry for the handwritten letter,” Joe writes, “However I am being isolated at the Federal Medical Center in Fort Worth and have no access to a computer, phone, email or library to respond to the government’s last request. I am asking for at least [a] 30-day extension to the deadline of April 28th, 2020 in hopes I am allowed access to use things in order to properly answer their request.” <\/p>\n

U.S. District Judge Scott L. Palk set Joe’s new deadline to May 28. <\/p>\n

E! News can also exclusively report that as of Thursday, Joe is out of quarantine<\/a> and transferred to a special housing unit within the prison he’s serving his 22-year sentence<\/a> in. <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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He will now have more time to respond to the federal magistrate judge, who in documents filed on April 8 and obtained by E! News, recommended to the district court judge that Joe’s lawsuit be dismissed. <\/p>\n

Joe is suing the U.S. Federal Wildlife Service, the United States Department of Interior, his former business partner and current owner of Oklahoma’s Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park Jeff Lowe<\/strong> to the tune of $88,840,000. <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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According to the documents, Joe is seeking “$73,840,000.00 in damages and an additional $15,000,000.00 for false arrest, false imprisonment, discrimination, malicious prosecution, selective enforcement, misinterpreting the law and the death of [his mother] Shirley Schreibvogel<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n

The judge writes in his recommendation that Joe does not have an attorney, adding that his complaint “[failed] to cite proper legal authority” and had a “confusion of various legal theories,” “poor syntax and sentence construction.” He recommends Joe re-submit the case as a habeas corpus proceeding, and argues that the civil case cannot be heard until his criminal appeal proceeds. <\/p>\n

Joe is currently appealing his 2019 conviction for killing five tigers at his Oklahoma zoo and attempting to execute a murder-for-hire plot against wildlife conservationist Carole Baskin<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

In a recent interview with Netflix<\/a> from behind bars, Joe said, “It’s now time to turn the tables and Joe get out of jail a free man and exonerated from all these charges.”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2014Reporting by Jessica Finn<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Tiger King star Joe Exotic has scored a small legal victory in his $89 million false arrest lawsuit.  According to court documents obtained by E! News, a judge granted Joe’s (whose real name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage) request for an extension to file an objection in the civil case. In a letter submitted by Joe, which you can read […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-22 22:03:08","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}