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Time Runs Out: Wesley Snipes Ordered To Prison For 3 Years After Request For New Tax Evasion Trial Denied [Video]
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(Reuters) - Actor Wesley Snipes was ordered on Friday to start serving a three-year prison sentence for failing to file income tax returns by a federal judge who rejected the Hollywood star's bid for a new trial.
"The defendant Snipes had a fair trial ... The time has come for the judgment to be enforced," U.S. District Judge Terrell Hodges said in his ruling.
Revoking bail for the 48-year-old star of the "Blade" trilogy, the judge ordered him to report to prison as directed by the U.S. Marshals Service or Bureau of Prisons.
It was not clear when or where Snipes would begin serving his time behind bars, however. His lawyer, Daniel Meachum, has said he would appeal if a new trial was denied.
Meachum told the Orlando Sentinel the ruling was shocking.
"Wesley is very disappointed but staying strong and positive," the newspaper quoted Meachum as saying.
Snipes had already lost his appeal of the prison sentence stemming from his 2008 conviction in Hodges' Ocala, Florida, court on three counts of "willful failure to file tax returns" for 1999 through 2001.
Snipes was found not guilty of five other counts in the high-profile felony tax case.
In seeking a new trial, Meachum had argued that jurors in the original trial were biased and that the prosecution's star witness had his own criminal problems.
At his sentencing, prosecutors said Snipes, a resident of Windermere, Florida, had earned more than $38 million since 1999 but had filed no tax returns or paid any taxes through October 2006.
Although he is best known for his roles in action films, Snipes has also had critical success in comedies like "White Men Can't Jump" in 1992. He played the lead in director Spike Lee's interracial drama "Jungle Fever" in 1991 and also played the jazz saxophonist in Lee's "Mo' Better Blues" in 1990.
Eric Thompson, a supervisor in the U.S. Marshals Service office in Orlando, Florida, said the Bureau of Prisons would notify Snipes and his lawyer of a surrender date.
"He'll probably get it by certified mail," Thompson said.
He declined to say what prison was likely to be selected for Snipes except to say that it would not be in Florida.
A listing for Snipes already posted on the Federal Bureau of Prisons website says his prisoner ID or registration number as 43355-018, his location is "in transit" and his release date is "unknown."
Source: Reuters
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Comment by SerbiaInDaHouse on November 24, 2010 at 10:03pm -
FREE SNIEEZY! ......... whats up with that tax's... young buck didnt pay em... so what?! on a real keep em waiting 3 more yrs... location: "in transit"
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Comment by Blak Godi on November 21, 2010 at 8:39pm -
Check out the Mayor of NC
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Comment by Yo Beans! on November 21, 2010 at 8:24pm -
@ D.Moy Well Put!
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Comment by d.moy on November 21, 2010 at 7:54pm -
u don't wanna handle ur s*** they will handle it 4 u as simple is that.
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Comment by mark nunoZ on November 20, 2010 at 7:14pm
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o yea what about the fed printing money for obamas big spending wich makes the value of the dollar go down wich means the prices of everithing goes up like food has idiot thats a tax .......and when did he cut tax for the 95% of americans? u blind sheep
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Comment by flip on November 20, 2010 at 3:54pm -
deleh u dnt know what the f*** u talking bout stop listening to them n***** on ur block u act like its a group of people in a secret room running the f****** world or sumin yeah people got there ferternities connections organize crime organization but the s*** u on is stupid mlk was killed buy powerful rednecks jfk was killed by the mob john lenon was killed by a bumb 2pac and big killed themselves cuz dey didnt know how to control dem selves jimi hendrix was a drug addict micheal jackson a drug addict jam master jay was a mistak ad would the illuminati wanna kill him keith ledger was a drug addict ur a f****** d*** head read a book but we can conversate bout this s*** all day and i will shut u down there are powerful organizations that influence alot of s*** goin on but illuminati if u even knew the history of the illuminati ud feel stupid scientist that didnt agree with everything the churchs saying started it and masons aint nothing but a ferternity
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Comment by lamont edwards on November 20, 2010 at 3:50pm
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dats a bunch of b*******
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Comment by hitstyle on November 20, 2010 at 3:48pm -
fyi: income taxes went down for 95% of people since obama and the democrats got in office but ppl are too f****** stupid to know
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Comment by flip on November 20, 2010 at 3:43pm
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its hard being black i think this the only celeb dat went to jail for taxes dey coulda gave him more time i mean theres people out there doin alot worst like lindsay lohan violating probation a 100 times and gets to go to rehad t.i. getting caght wit a whole gun store and den getting caught violating probation nd only doin 11 months or lil wayne doin 8 months in ny for a gun charge and it manditory u do like 4 yrs even if its ur fist gun charge wow
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Comment by CallME FiFDaDragon CuzIspit Fire on November 20, 2010 at 2:55pm -
@DELEH PIRADES WTF IS UP WITH ALL THIS ILLUMINATI??? IDK WHY ON EVERY POST SOME IDIOT HAS TO POST SOME S*** ABOUT ILLUMINATI, ITS LIKE YOUTUBE WITH JUSTIN BIEBER, EVERY POST HAS SOME CLOWN POSTIN S*** ABOUT IT. FORGET ABOUT ILLUMINATI WTF DAT S*** IS GETTING ANNOYING.
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