“Tiger King” star Doc Antle is celebrating an enormous authorized win … after Virginia’s Supreme Court docket threw out all of his remaining convictions stemming from his lion cub purchases.
Antle had been convicted on expenses tied to purchasing lion cubs from a Virginia zoo proprietor in 2018 and 2019. However Virginia’s highest court docket dominated the legislation prosecutors used by no means truly made it unlawful to buy the animals.
The justices discovered the statute banned the sale of endangered species — not the acquisition of them — and tossed Antle’s convictions and the indictments behind them.
The court docket additionally threw out Antle’s conspiracy convictions, ruling the fees had been primarily based partly on conduct that wasn’t truly against the law.
Antle known as the choice “total vindication” in a press launch … saying, “Today the highest court in Virginia confirmed what I have said since the day these charges were filed: I broke no law. Not one.”
In fact, this is not the top of Antle’s authorized saga. TMZ beforehand reported the Myrtle Seashore Safari proprietor was sentenced to 12 months in federal jail final July after admitting to wildlife trafficking and cash laundering conspiracy expenses involving cheetahs, lions, tigers and a chimpanzee.
However relating to the Virginia lion cub case … Doc simply clawed again an enormous win.
