Film star's racism claim 'scurrilous', says prosecutor

There is “no basis in reality” for film star Wesley Snipes’s claims that he cannot get a fair trial on tax evasion charges because of racial prejudice, US federal prosecutors said today.

Snipes’s lawyer desbribed Ocala in Florida, where the January trial is set, as “a hotbed of (Ku Klux Klan) activity”. He alleged that prosecutors chose it to get the best chance of an all-white jury.