Wesley Snipes will remain free for now
Posted by Media Outrage on May 23, 2008
Wesley Snipes was granted bail today and will remain a free man while his tax evasion case is on appeal.
Via Eurweb:
*Wesley Snipes was granted bail on Thursday that will allow him to remain a free man while his tax evasion case is on appeal, reports TMZ.com.
The actor was due to begin his prison sentence on June 3 after he was convicted in February of failure to file a tax return since 1998. The decision regarding his bail hinged upon whether or not he was considered a flight risk.
In granting bail, the judge also said the appeal process might take a long period of time. “The Court recognizes that … the disposition of an appeal may well equal — or nearly equal — the length of the term of the commitment imposed,” the judge stated, according to TMZ.
Snipes’ lawyers plan to argue before the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that the trial judge erred in several ways before and after his February conviction.
Mediaoutrage- That’s whats up for Wesley. We know he’s hoping this appeals process last for an entire year and that the sentence gets overturned.
w2m said
Wesley better get him some better get “Accounting for Dummies” and do it his damn self, cause if he don’t he gonna end up in the pen.
beach chick said
I agree W2M but I gotta a feeling he will get it together by then…hopefully!
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