The attorney for Hemy Neuman's wife said her client's husband was having an affair with the widow of the man Neuman is accused of killing.
"We believe there was an extramarital relationship between Hemy Neuman and Andrea Sneiderman," Esther Panitch, who represents Ariela Neuman, told the AJC.
The Dunwoody attorney on Thursday subpoenaed the DeKalb County District Attorney seeking discovery evidence regarding the relationship between Sneiderman and Hemy Neuman, her supervisor at General Electric Energy.
Hemy Neuman, 48, is charged with gunning down Rusty Sneiderman outside a Dunwoody day care facility last fall.
The district attorney, acknowledging it possessed the requested materials, filed a protective order Thursday to shield it from handing over the discovery evidence.
"The state objects to the production of the information sought by plaintiff for two basic reasons; (1) that the information sought by plaintiff could be discovered through other means and (2) that the information could be released to the media," said chief assistant district attorney Don Geary in the state's response.
Police have not implicated Andrea Sneiderman in her husband’s slaying and her attorney has said her relationship with Neuman was strictly platonic.
On Monday, Ariela Neuman filed for separation from her husband of 22 years. Her attorney has subpoenaed Hemy Neuman and Andrea Sneiderman as part of that separation suit, which alleges adultery and cruel treatment. The court filing seeks alimony for the longtime engineer's estranged wife and child support for the Neumans' 17-year-old daughter, the youngest of the couple's three children.
The district attorney's office recently secured search warrants for e-mails and phone records of the suspect and his former charge, saying in an affidavit they may have concealed evidence regarding 36-year-old Rusty Sneiderman's death. Andrea Sneiderman and Hemy Neuman were in "continuous communication" before and after the Nov. 18 shooting, the affidavit states.
Doug Peters, one of Hemy Neuman's attorneys, had no comment on Thursday's court filings.
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