Jurors now have Sneiderman’s case in their hands

Sneiderman has denied accusations she was attempting to cover up an affair with her former boss, Hemy Neuman, who was convicted last year in the fatal shooting of Rusty Sneiderman outside a Dunwoody day care facility in November 2010.

“You’re a liar!” said Robert James, the DeKalb County district attorney said during his closing argument as he approached Sneiderman, who avoided eye contact. “You are a liar!”

Defense attorney Tom Clegg said that prosecutors haven’t presented a case as much as a “well-edited TV show.” He went on to mock state witness Shayna Citron — a former close friend of Sneiderman’s — and ridicule the lack of follow-up by Dunwoody police investigating the shooting.

The trial was about little more than whether “she kissed a guy in a bar in October 2010,” he said of Sneiderman.

Emails insinuating an affair, combined with the emotional testimony from Citron, who claimed that Sneiderman had “checked out of her marriage,” weren’t enough to convict his client, the defense attorney said.

“Shayna is trying out for a TV show, isn’t she? The Real Housewives of Atlanta,” Clegg said. He even poked fun at her wardrobe, asking jurors, “Did you see what she was wearing?”

He later pointed out that 12 witnesses, called by the defense, had testified that the Sneidermans were a committed, loving couple.

Those witnesses, James argued, were fooled by the defendant.

“She’s a manipulator. She’s a deceiver,” he said. “If this was the street, they’d say she’s got game.”

Day Nine of Sneiderman’s trial began with the mother of two telling DeKalb Superior Court Judge Gregory A. Adams that she would not testify, though video clips of her testimony from Neuman’s trial in February 2012 were interspersed throughout James’ closing argument.

In one clip, she claims she traveled to Longmont, Col., alone. On another, she said that the two were in Colorado together.

James also went after the defense’s contention that Neuman had sexually harassed Sneiderman, making unwanted advances toward her. Sneiderman never reported sexual harassment allegations to their superiors at GE Energy.

“After saying she was sexually harassed, she’s planning fun time in London,” he said, referring to a trip the colleagues took to the United Kingdom months before the shooting.

One month later, in Greenville, S.C., they had adjoining rooms and, according to a state witness, kissed at a local bar.

“She went to a club with her sexual harasser, her stalker?” James said. “What kind of sick game is she playing?”

Clegg, meanwhile, laid much of Sneiderman’s travails at the feet of Dunwoody police, who’ve come under fire before for the way they proceeded with the investigation into Rusty Sneiderman’s murder.

He noted that Andrea Sneiderman gave police Neuman’s name the day after the shooting. But when one of the investigators present the day of that interview first spoke with Neuman 47 days later, he had no idea that he was even acquainted with Andrea Sneiderman.

“Dunwoody police couldn’t be bothered … to do a relatively competent job investigating the case,” Clegg said. “They blew it, folks. (Andrea Sneiderman) gave them Hemy Neuman on a silver platter. Is it her fault they didn’t solve the crime for them?”

Sneiderman, as much of her in-laws, who have publicly questioned her innocence, is the real victim, Clegg said.

“Hemy Neuman had an obsession with this woman, had an infatuation with this woman,” Clegg said. “She is a victim, make no mistake.”

James accused the state of obfuscating, saying Sneiderman should be judged on her own words and deeds.

“How many times does Andrea Sneiderman have to lie before someone holds her accountable,” he said.