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Wesley Snipes Appeals 3 Tax Convictions In Georgia

Celeste Smith

ATLANTA (AP) - Actor Wesley Snipes is set to ask a federal appeals panel to overturn his three federal tax convictions.

The actor was sentenced last year to three years in prison on three misdemeanor counts of willful failure to file his income tax
returns. A judge allowed him to remain free on bail as he appealed the convictions.

His attorneys plan to argue before the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Friday that the trial judge erred in multiple ways
before and after his conviction.

Prosecutors say Snipes, the star of the "Blade" trilogy, "White Men Can't Jump," "Jungle Fever" and other films, hasn't filed a tax return since 1998.

(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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