Crime & Safety
Neuman Jury Continues Deliberations
A DeKalb Superior Court jury viewed a videotaped interview of the former East Cobb resident and a state psychiatrist.
The jury in the murder trial of former East Cobb resident Hemy Neuman will be back in DeKalb Superior Court at 8:30 this morning after a long day of deliberations on Wednesday.
According to Dunwoody Patch, the jury spent two hours reviewing videotape of Neuman with a psychiatrist hired by the state after he pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.
Neuman, 49, a former GE Energy engineer at the company's Wildwood offices in East Cobb, has admitted he shot Russell "Rusty" Sneiderman to death outside the Dunwoody Prep day care center on Nov. 18, 2010.
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The jury can go one of four ways in its deliberations. It can find Neuman:
- Guilty
- Guilty by reason of mental illness
- Not guilty by reason of insanity
- Not guilty
Also on Wednesday, Andrea Sneiderman, Sneiderman's widow, has hired a new team of lawyers, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. Both the prosecution and defense claimed during the trial that she and Neuman, her boss at GE Energy, had an affair, which she denied on the witness stand.
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During closing arguments on Tuesday, defense attorney Doug Peters said Andrea Sneiderman, who hasn't been charged in the case, nonetheless pulled at Neuman's emotions, leading to a delusional state that led him to kill her husband:
"This case is about one bad, really bad woman: Andrea Sneiderman. Adulterer. Tease. Calculator. Liar. And master manipulator."
The prosecutors maintain that Neuman was fully capable of knowing right from wrong as he committed the crime.
To follow the latest updates and live coverage of the Neuman trial and deliberations, please visit Dunwoody Patch's special page devoted to the subject.
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