Crime & Safety

Testimony Ends in Neuman Trial

Closing arguments are slated for Tuesday in the former East Cobb resident's trial for the Dunwoody Prep killing.

Both the prosecution and the defense rested Monday in the murder trial of former East Cobb resident Hemy Neuman, with closing arguments slated for this morning. 

After 13 days of testimony, and following the final arguments and instructions from the judge, a DeKalb Superior Court jury could get the case this afternoon. There will be plenty of complicated, dramatic information to absorb.

As following Monday's testimony, Neuman's attorneys are claiming he wasn't mentally competent when Russell "Rusty" Sneiderman outside the Dunwoody Prep day care center on Nov. 18, 2010.

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A psychiatrist for the prosecution testified that Neuman is faking an illness to avoid prison.

That last issue was emphasized in court on Monday, as Neuman's lawyers said he didn't know right from wrong when he killed Sneiderman. Both sides have said Neuman was having an affair with Sneiderman's wife Andrea, whom he supervised at a GE Energy engineering unit in East Cobb. During her lengthy trial testimony, they were intimate.

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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution detailed Neuman's emotional video testimony presented in court on Monday about his terror upon arriving at an Israeli boarding school when he was a child. It's an experience a defense witness claims triggered a bipolar disorder.

Neuman did not take the stand during the trial, which included explanations from his lawyers that he was visited by an angel and a demon in the forms of Olivia Newton-John and Barry White, who told him he was the father of the Sneidermans' two children and that he had to kill Russell Sneiderman to protect them. 


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