Andrea Sneiderman seeks new trial
Andrea Sneiderman's attorneys on Thursday filed a motion for a new trial, two days after lawyers for her husband's killer made their case for a legal mulligan.
Sneiderman was released from prison in June following her conviction in Aug. 2013 for perjury and hindering the investigation into her husband's murder. Because the mother of two was sentenced under the First Offender Act, her nine felony convictions will be erased — assuming she does not commit another crime — when her parole ends in August 2017.
But exoneration is “very important” to Sneiderman, her former attorney, J. Tom Morgan, told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution last year.
Sneiderman’s new lawyer, Brian Steel, said in court papers that his client’s alleged false testimony in the trial of Hemy Neuman —found guilty but mentally ill of fatally shooting Rusty Sneiderman in the parking lot of his son’s nursery — was not material to her former supervisor’s conviction.
Steel even cited Neuman’s appeal brief in which the DeKalb District Attorney’s Office “admitted Ms. Sneiderman’s alleged perjured testimony was not essential to the verdict rendered in Mr. Neuman’s trial.”
Sneidmerman’s trial lawyers failed her, according to the motion, by failing to object to the use of Neuman’s communications as hearsay.
Despite significant evidence of an affair, the Dunwoody widow maintains that she was never romantically involved with Neuman,who is serving a life sentence without parole.
About the Author
A native Atlantan, Boone joined the AJC staff in 2007. He quickly carved out a niche covering crime stories, assuming the public safety beat in 2014. He's covered some of the biggest trials this decade, from Hemy Neuman to Ross Harris to Chip Olsen, the latter of which was featured on Season 7 of the AJC's award-winning "Breakdown" podcast.
