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Sneiderman funds to remain frozen at least for now

A Fulton County judge on Friday ruled that Andrea Sneiderman will have to wait at least 90 days before she can claim her late husband’s estate totaling more than $2 million. Sneiderman’s in-laws sought to block her from claiming the $2.25 million that was frozen 14 months ago when she ...

Commission: Georgia judges violating law by closing courtrooms

A substantial number of Georgia judges — including ones in metro Atlanta — have been violating the law by denying the public access to courtrooms for everything from bail hearings to trials, according to the state judicial oversight commission.The organization that investigates and disciplines judges issued an opinion Wednesday that ...

Sneiderman seeks return of insurance money tied to husband’s murder

Andrea Sneiderman’s attorneys moved Tuesday to have the life insurance money received after her husband’s death returned now that murder charges against her have been dropped. The state seized more than $2 million from Sneiderman following her arrest last August. She was found guilty last week on nine of 13 ...

Date set for Sneiderman bond hearing

The DeKalb County judge who one week ago sentenced Andrea Sneiderman to five years in prison has granted her motion for a bond hearing.Judge Gregory A. Adams scheduled the hearing for Nov. 6. Sneiderman, found guilty on nine of 13 felony counts, including perjury and hindering the apprehension of a ...

Andrea Sneiderman leaves court after her sentence was handed down by Judge Adams.

Sneiderman transferred to prison in NE Georgia

Andrea Sneiderman has begun serving her five-year prison sentence at Arrendale State Prison in northeast Georgia. Atlanta attorney Brian Steel, who is working on the 37-year-old Dunwoody woman’s appeal, said she was transferred from the DeKalb County Jail just hours after her sentencing Tuesday. Sneiderman was convicted Aug. 19 on ...

Sneiderman’s lawyers file for new trial; Neuman’s attorneys plan similar action

One day after she was sentenced to five years in prison, Andrea Sneiderman’s attorneys have filed a motion for a new trial. Meanwhile, lawyers for Sneiderman’s former boss, Hemy Neuman — convicted of killing her husband, Rusty, outside a Dunwoody day care facility in November 2010 — say they will ...

How Sneiderman was convicted

HOW ANDREA SNEIDERMAN WAS CONVICTEDAndrea Sneiderman was convicted of 9 of the 13 felony counts against her, including perjury, providing false statements to investigators and hindering the apprehension of a criminal. Sneiderman did not testify during her 10-day trial but testimony she gave in the murder trial of her former ...

Andrea Sneiderman sentenced to five years

The perjury trial of Andrea Sneiderman may be over, but the saga that began 1,006 days ago when her husband was gunned down by her former boss is far from over. Sneiderman, sentenced to five years in prison Tuesday, will appeal the verdict by a DeKalb County jury, which found ...

Sneiderman found guilty on 9 of 13 counts

Andrea Sneiderman, convicted Monday of nine of the 13 felony counts against her, took two calculated risks in a pair of trials following the murder of her husband, Rusty, nearly three years ago. Both decisions could cost her plenty. The Dunwoody widow Tuesday will receive her sentence, which might be ...

District Attorney Robert James yelled to Sneiderman, "You are a liar."

Jurors to continue deliberating Monday in Andrea Sneiderman trial

Following nearly seven hours of deliberations, jurors in the Andrea Sneiderman perjury trial told DeKalb County Superior Court Judge Gregory A. Adams late Friday afternoon that they need more time. The six-man, six-woman panel will reconvene at 8:30 a.m. Monday to decide on the Dunwoody widow’s fate. Sneiderman is charged ...

Jurors now have Sneiderman’s case in their hands

Many have formed an opinion on Andrea Sneiderman’s guilt or innocence in a saga that’s captivated metro Atlantans for nearly three years.Now it’s left to 12 jurors to form theirs.The six-man, six-woman panel was given the evening to chew on spirited closing arguments by the defense and prosecution. Friday morning ...

DeKalb report that could lead to more indictments headed to chief judge

The report of a yearlong investigation into allegations of corruption in DeKalb County’s water/sewer department contracts is going to the county’s chief judge. It remains unclear, though, whether Superior Court Judge Mark Anthony Scott’s order Thursday – a day after a hearing revealed the special grand jury’s report could lead ...

Closing arguments spirited in Andrea Sneiderman trial

Andrea Sneiderman attorney Tom Clegg mocked the state’s case, two of its witnesses and the police investigation into the death of the Dunwoody widow’s husband while prosecutor Robert James pointed the finger directly at the defendant in spirited closing arguments Thursday afternoon. “You’re a liar!” James, the DeKalb County district ...

Andrea Sneiderman is shown in court Wednesday. DeKalb County Superior Court Judge Gregory A. Adams is presiding over the the perjury and obstruction trial of Andrea Sneiderman. The 37-year-old mother of two faces four perjury counts, seven counts of making false statements and one count each of hindering the apprehension of a criminal and concealing a material fact in connection with the death of her husband, Rusty.

Andrea Sneiderman defense team challenges testimony of former best friend

Andrea Sneiderman’s defense team spent much of the eighth day of her perjury trial challenging the emotional claims of the Dunwoody widow’s former best friend. Shayna Citron testified last week that Sneiderman had “checked out of her marriage” to Rusty Sneiderman months before the Harvard-educated entrepreneur was gunned down in ...

Andrea Sneiderman friend disputes prosecution timeline

A friend of Andrea Sneiderman testified Tuesday that the Dunwoody widow was mistaken when she said she learned her husband, Rusty, had been shot from an emergency room doctor at the hospital where he was pronounced dead. Defense witness Elizabeth Stansbury said an administrator at Dunwoody Prep told her that ...

Andrea Sneiderman listens to testimony in court Wednesday. The 37-year-old mother of two faces 4 perjury counts, 7 counts of making false statements and 1 count each of hindering the apprehension of a criminal and concealing a material fact in connection with the death of her husband, Rusty.

Defense seeks directed verdict after state rests in Andrea Sneiderman trial

The state concluded its case against Andrea Sneiderman with the defendant’s own words, replayed from testimony she gave during last year’s trial of her husband’s killer, Hemy Neuman. “Why were you protecting the defendant? Why didn’t you mention his name?” former DeKalb County Deputy District Attorney Don Geary asked Sneiderman ...

Testimony: Sneiderman withheld vital info until after Neuman arrest

Investigators testified Friday that Andrea Sneiderman did not disclose details about her relationship with her boss until after he was arrested and charged with killing her husband. “She never directly said that she believed (Hemy Neuman) was responsible for the murder of Rusty (Sneiderman),” Dunwoody Deputy Police Chief David Sides ...

Sneiderman is currently facing 13 counts, all of which stem from alleged lies she told police during the investigation and sworn testimony she gave while on the stand during Hemy Neuman's murder trial.

Ex-friend: Sneiderman discussed troubled marriage before husband’s murder

Andrea Sneiderman’s former best friend testified Thursday that she concluded the Dunwoody widow had “checked out of her marriage” following a lunch date two months before her husband’s murder. “Her eyes were dark and cold when she was speaking about Rusty (Sneiderman, Andrea’s husband),” Shayna Citron testified on the fourth ...

DeKalb County CEO Burrell Ellis, center, responds through his attorney Craig Gillen, to a 14-count indictment at a hearing in the Judicial Building Monday, July 15, 2013, in Atlanta, to determine if the charges against Ellis will interfere with his job running the state's third-largest county. David Tulis / AJC Special

Trial for indicted DeKalb CEO delayed

The corruption trial of indicted DeKalb County CEO Burrell Ellis will not start later this month. Superior Court Judge Courtney L. Johnson agreed to delay the trial, which had been set Aug. 19, hours after Ellis’ lawyers requested it Thursday morning. No new start date was set. “Nobody wants to ...

Testimony focuses on Sneiderman’s comments to police investigating husband’s shooting

What Andrea Sneiderman knew about the death of her husband, Rusty, and when she knew it remained the focus of testimony on Day Three of the Dunwoody widow’s perjury trial. The police detective who comforted Sneiderman when she arrived at the crime scene — the parking lot of the Dunwoody ...

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