Opening Arguments Begin Monday in Hemy Neuman Re-Trial

DECATUR, GA — Opening arguments are set to begin Monday in the murder retrial of the accused Dunwoody day care shooter.

A final jury was seated Friday morning in the trial of Hemy Nueman, who was found guilty but mentally ill in the 2010 shooting death of Rusty Sneiderman outside a Dunwoody day care.

Neuman appealed his case all the way to the Georgia Supreme Court, which granted his request for a new trial because the trial judge erred by allowing notes and records of two mental health experts who examined Neuman before the trial began.

Neuman, a Dunwoody resident and former GE Energy executive, said a demon told him to kill the husband of his mistress, Andrea Sneiderman.

Judge Gregory Adams, who called Rusty Sneiderman’s 2010 death “an execution,” sentenced Neuman to the maximum sentence allowed -- life in prison without possibility of parole. Adams also imposed a five-year sentence for using a gun in the commission of a felony.

The murder trial gripped the nation for more than a month, with Neuman dubbed the Dunwoody Day Care Killer. Both sides claimed that Neuman was having an affair with Sneiderman’s wife, Andrea, who worked for Neuman at GE.

Andrea Sneiderman was convicted in August 2013 on nine of 13 charges that she lied on the witness stand during Neuman’s trial for her husband’s November 2010 shooting. She was found guilty on counts including hindering apprehension of a criminal, making false statements and concealing a romantic relationship with her former boss.

Neuman admitted killing Sneiderman just after Sneiderman dropped his son off at a Dunwoody daycare center.

“I am so, so, so sorry,” Neuman said at his sentencing. “I can’t say it enough. I am sorry from the deepest part of me, your honor. That’s all I have.”

The widow testified in the case and admitted receiving $2 million in life insurance after her husband’s death. She denied having an affair with her boss and said she did not know of his plans to kill her husband.

See also:

• Neuman found Guilty but Mentally Ill; Gets Life Without Parole
• Hemy Neuman to Plead Insanity
• Hemy Neuman Trial - Closing Arguments
• GA Supreme Court to Hear Dunwoody Day-Care Killer's Appeal
• Andrea Sneiderman Found Guilty on Several Counts
• Andrea Sneiderman Accused of Perjury for Conduct in Hemy Neuman Trial
• Neuman found Guilty but Mentally Ill; Gets Life Without Parole

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