Wesley Snipes will be tried in Ocala, Florida, not New York City. That was just one of the rulings made yesterday by Judge William Hodges. The judge found that a jury in Florida would likely consist of the same racial percentages as one would find in Central Florida, and that’s the important constitutional question, not the racial percentage differences between Florida and New York. Additionally, the judge ruled that the trial will not be delayed until April.
So Snipes’ trial is set to begin on January 14th in Ocala. We’ll see how big of a media circus the trial is in just a few weeks. In any case, Snipes’ trial will probably be just the tonic for tax preparers while we prepare 2007 returns.
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