Snipes Fighting Sentence

Wesley Snipes is not ready to give up his fight. The Blade star was sentenced in Florida to three years in prison for tax evasion, but yesterday he filed documents requesting a new trial. Snipes is claiming “jury misconduct” and says he has emails to prove it. He says that after the trial was over his defense team received emails from two jurors who claimed that three of the other jurors “told us (Snipes) was guilty before they even heard the first piece of evidence.” While he thinks that should be enough to get him a new trial, his lawyers also argue that the government failed to disclose that his former accountant Kenneth Starr, a key witness against him, was also under investigation for “criminal activities of conspiring to evade income taxes” with another client.  Snipes team suggests that if the jury knew Starr was being investigated, they wouldn’t have believed his testimony.