The Tiger King Remains Behind Bars ...
New Mexico History: Carlsbad Caverns National Park Between April and May of 1923, the General Land Office (now the Bureau of Land Management) spent two months surveying, mapping, and photographing Carlsbad Cavern before recommending it as a national monument. On Oct. 25, 1923, Carlsbad Caverns National Monument was created by President Calvin Coolidge; almost 100 years later, Carlsbad Cavern still leaves visitors with a sense of awe. Who first discovered Carlsbad Caverns is an unanswered question. Credit is commonly given to explorer Jim White, who first entered the cavern in 1898 and accompanied the General Land Office during their 1923 exploration. Further study, however, has shown that Native Americans had inscribed pictographs on the cavern walls at least a thousand years before. Known today as Carlsbad Caverns National Park, the geological marvel is estimated to have existed for about 4–6 million years. The surface of the park looks like a normal desert habitat, but below ground, there are at least 120 caves. Most famous, of course, is the namesake Carlsbad Cavern. Covered in stalagmites, stalactites, and other geological formations, Carlsbad Cavern is over 30 miles long and has been developed for public viewing. Its humongous limestone chamber — aptly called “the Big Room” — is the largest in North America, at an astounding 357,469 square feet.
Judges Deny Joe Exotic’s Appeal
Even more than a year after the release of “Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness,” Joseph Maldonado-Passage, more popularly known as Joe Exotic, continues to make headlines. Following the fame that came with having his story at the center of a wildly popular Netflix series, Maldonado-Passage saw fit to appeal his 22-year prison sentence for plotting to murder big cat rescue activist Carole Baskin on a few different grounds. However, in July, the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected his appeal. The primary reason for Maldonado-Passage’s appeal, as reported by his legal team, was that Baskin was allowed to attend the entirety of Maldonado-Passage’s trial, despite her role as a witness in the case. As a general rule, witnesses
are not permitted to attend proceedings in their entirety, as other witness testimonies might affect the objectivity of their own testimony. However, Baskin was also in attendance at the trial as a victim, since she was the target of Maldonado-Passage’s murder-for-hire scheme. Victims are allowed to attend court proceedings so long as the judge decides their testimony (if they are also a witness) will not be affected by their attendance.
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Maldonado-Passage’s legal team asserted that Baskin was not a victim of any sort, since the murder-for-hire plot did not result in her murder. However, U.S. Circuit Court judges ruled that she still suffered emotional and financial harm because of the incident. In addition to this, since Maldonado-Passage conspired to have Baskin murdered two different times, the judge at his trial in 2019 had incorrectly considered them as two separate plots, rather than two attempts at the same murder. The U.S. Circuit Court judges ordered the trial judge to resentence him. So, even for all that trouble, Maldonado-Passage remains behind bars. However, so long as the Tiger King’s popularity continues, it won’t be surprising if Joe Exotic and his legal team keep searching for ways to get him out of prison.
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