MIAMI (Reuters) - A U.S. judge rejected an appeal by actor Wesley Snipes on Friday and ordered to begin serving a sentence of three years in prison for tax evasion.Snipes had already lost an appeal to the ruling of a court in Ocala, Florida, in 2008, for three misdemeanor tax after failing to submit tax returns from 1999 to 2001.
"The defendant Snipes had a fair trial (...) it is time that the decision is imposed," said District Judge Terrell Hodges in his sentence.
The judge ordered that the star of the movie trilogy "Blade", 48, is present in prison as he was ordered by service commissioners United States or the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
