 Wesley Snipes: Gets permission to travel abroad
Orlando born movie star Wesley Snipes is now free to fly U.K. and Thailand to work on some films.
A federal judge granted Wesley Snipes' request on Wednesday to work on two movies while his lawyers appeal his tax convictions.
Federal judge William Terrell Hodges approved the actor's motion to travel to London and Bangkok, Thailand on Wednesday. Snipes will stay at England for about three days in this month for post-production editing of "Gallowwalker," and in Thailand for eight weeks to film "Chasing the Dragon".
A jury convicted the 45 year old Wesley Snipes in February of three counts of willfully failing to file his income taxes.
Wesley Snipes, the star of the "Blade", "White Men Can't Jump" and "Jungle Fever" was sentenced in April to three years in prison for failing to file multiple income-tax returns but the court has allowed him to remain free while his attorneys appeal his case. |