Celebrity | Wesley Snipes Wesley Snipes Heading to Prison Appeals panel upholds 3-year sentence on tax charges By Newser Editors and Wire Services Suggested by Ghille Posted Jul 17, 2010 12:12 PM CDT Copied Wesley Snipes attends the premiere of "Brooklyn's Finest" in New York, on Tuesday, March 2, 2010. (AP Photo/Peter Kramer) A federal appeals panel has upheld a three-year prison sentence on federal tax charges for film star Wesley Snipes. The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta concluded that the judge properly sentenced Snipes, who was convicted in 2008 of three counts of willful failure to file his returns. His attorneys argued the sentence was "unreasonable." Read These Next Trump to pardon ex-president of Honduras who was convicted in US. One mystery is solved around chilling Holocaust photo. Researchers have an idea of what brought down this civilization. The shark killed his girlfriend. He nearly died fighting it. Report an error