Wesley Snipes' appeal on tax charges turned away by Supreme Court

(CBS/AP) It looks as if actor Wesley Snipes will be in jail for a while.

The Supreme Court has turned away his latest attempt to get his conviction and prison sentence on tax charges overturned.

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The high court refused Monday to hear an appeal from Snipes, convicted in April of 2008 on three misdemeanor counts of willful failure to file income tax returns.

Snipes started a three-year term in December at the McKean Federal Correctional Institution in Lewis Run, Pa., a federal minimum security prison.

Snipes, who has spent several years pursuing appeals, wanted his trial held in New York, where he says he lived, rather than Florida, where he has a driver's license. The lower courts refused to let him have an evidentiary hearing on this issue.

The 48-year-old actor has appeared in dozens of films, from "White Men Can't Jump'' and "Demolition Man'' in the early 1990s to the blockbuster Blade trilogy.