Wesley Snipes in 2010, the year he was convicted on tax charges.
(CNN) -- Actor Wesley Snipes has been released from a
federal prison where he was serving a three-year sentence after being
convicted on tax charges in February 2010.
The release to a supervised residential location in New York occurred Tuesday, the Federal Bureau of Prisons told CNN.
Snipes, 50, who starred
in the "Blade" action movies and "White Men Can't Jump," had been
serving time at a federal prison in Pennsylvania. A jury convicted him
of willfully failing to file tax returns for 1999, 2000 and 2001. Snipes
was acquitted of felony tax fraud and conspiracy charges.
In June 2011, the U.S.
Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal of his sentence, which he had
argued was too harsh for a misdemeanor conviction.
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