Attorney Daniel Meachum said in an e-mail Monday that he's focused on trying to free Snipes rather than a surrender date. Snipes has been free on bail for two years while appealing his 2008 conviction for willful failure to file income tax returns. A Florida federal judge last week ordered Snipes to begin serving his prison sentence but did not set a surrender date.

The 48-year-old Snipes starred in the «Blade» trilogy, «White Men Can't Jump» and other films. He has recently been in Atlanta working on a new movie called "Master Daddy."