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Wesley Snipes has been ordered to spend three years in prison for misdemeanor tax evasion and that decision has been upheld by a U.S. appellate court.  The ruling did not indicate when or where Wesley Snipes was to begin his sentence, ABC News said. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Miami ruled Friday that the maximum sentence of three years Snipes received for failing to file tax returns in 1999-2001 was "well within" the "considerable discretion" of a U.S. District Court, the Los Angeles Times reported. Snipes, who was found not guilty on fraud and conspiracy charges, was convicted of three misdemeanor counts of tax evasion in 2008. He has been free on bail pending his appeal. The actor earned more than $37 million in gross income between 1999 and 2004 but did not file individual federal income tax returns for any of those years, according to official court papers. 
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