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Wesley waits

August 24, 2010

Actor Wesley Snipes has received a delay for his 3-year sentence on federal tax charges. Variety reports that Mr. Snipes received an emergency stay of his sentence while pending motions on the case are heard. He had been scheduled to report to prison September 2.

Mr. Snipes apparently hasn't given up his fight to stay out of jail. He has filed a motion for a new trial based on a criminal complaint against a witness in his case and "an e-mail purporting that some jurors had thought he was guilty at the outset of the trial and had not thought he would go to prison." Of course, Mr. Snipes got in trial in the first place by believing implausible things, so he shouldn't get his hopes up.

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Order staying surrender
Motion to stay