The Georgia Court of Appeals on Friday rejected Andrea Sneiderman’s appeal of her 2013 conviction for hindering the apprehension of her husband’s killer.
Sneiderman was found guilty of destroying evidence and lying to Dunwoody Police during the investigation into the 2010 shooting death of her husband, Rusty Sneiderman. Jurors determined she also made false statements from the witness stand about her relationship with the accused killer, Hemy Neuman, who admitted he had an affair with her.
Sneiderman’s appeal attacked her conviction on several technical grounds, among them alleging that prosecutors failed to prove her statements were material to the murder investigation.
The Appeals Court determined, “Sneiderman responded to the officers’ questions giving them false and misleading information about her relationship with Neuman deliberately designed to deceive the officers and impede the investigation by creating the false impression that Neuman had no motive to murder her husband.”
Sneiderman had failed in her appeal last year before the DeKalb County Superior Court. She served 10 months in prison for perjury and was released in June of 2014; she will be on parole through August 2017.
Neuman pled not guilty by reason of insanity on the murder charge and was found guilty but mentally ill. But the Georgia Supreme Court reversed the conviction on the basis that the trial court admitted evidence protected by the attorney-client privilege.
Neuman is set to have a retrial in the fall.
DeKalb County District Attorney Robert James said in a statement Friday, “This has been a difficult case for everyone involved, and we are happy that this episode has come to a close.”
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