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Wesley Snipes Gets Three Years in Jail

Wesley Snipes Gets Three Years in Jail

Wesley Snipes was sentenced to three years in jail based on three misdemeanor counts of failing to file his tax returns on Thursday. This was the maximum sentence that federal prosecutors were seeking.

Snipes‘ attorneys, however, will appeal the sentence. They were pleading for either probation or house arrest for their client.

The actor, 45, submitted checks summing to $5 million prior to the sentencing, but it was not enough. The IRS calculates that Snipes had an initial debt of approximately $15 million.

Snipes showed little emotion, however, he shouted a loud “wow” as he left the courtroom.

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Disgusted with it all @ 04/27/2008 at 7:49 pm

THANK YOU #21!! I was about to say the same! This poor young man was murdered the night before his wedding and those cops were charged with nothing. NOTHING! There were NO drugs or weapons found on him or his equally innocent, wounded friends. Although the cops’ excuse was it’s supposedly such a ‘dangerous’ neighborhood and people outside were drunk, no one else was arrested for fighting, nor were there any weapons found on anyone else.

There was no excuse for their behavior; and the simple fact is if Paris, Lindsay got so little time for driving drunk, and those cops didn’t get punished at all for killing that innocent young man, Wesley shouldn’t get a sentence of three years. Martha Stewart didn’t get such a long sentence, and she was as guilty as Lindsay, Paris and the cops. This is absolutely ridiculous.

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Rob, people ‘play the race card’ as you love to say, and I hate to hear, because of stuff like what happened to Amadou Diallo and Sean Bell and that teenager a few months before him who was killed by a cop as he ‘burst out’ the door leading to the rooftop of a building. What was he, all of fifteen-years-old? There are countless others who were killed by cops, which might be excused as a terrible mistake the first time, but it happens time and time and TIME AGAIN to young men of color. Something has to be done so police aren’t so cowardly and trigger-happy when it comes to young Black and Spanish men.

And don’t anyone try to say that they have a right to be afraid, because there are much more Black people in college than in jail, so don’t even get started. The largest group of people, of all races, in prison are non-violent drug offenders anyway. What are they so afraid of besides their own prejudiced assessment of a situation?

This sounds to me like a race thing. The federal government has been making targets of black celebrities like Wesley Snipes, Barry Bonds, and Marion Jones. Until we change our laws, Snipes should get the same penalty as others who have done the same crime; it’s not right to make an example of someone just because he’s a black celebrity.

That said, I think we should change our laws so that anyone who evades several million dollars in taxes should go to jail for a long time.

Other white collar criminals and identity thieves also deserve long term sentences.

bigddt atx @ 10/12/2008 at 4:40 pm

WELL…………….I WOULD HAVE TAKIN …THE 5 MILL HE PAID TO THE COURT PRIOR TO WALKING IN THE COURT ROOM AND VISITED BRAZIL OR SPAIN OR AUSTRALIA……….AND RETIRED PEACEFULLY ….

F…………JAIL

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