Dunwoody Shooting: Judge Denies Motions to Suppress Interview, Warrants

Hemy Neuman’s initial interview with police as well as a search warrant of his East Cobb home will both be included as evidence in the trial against him, the judge in the case against Neuman ruled this week.

Attorneys for Neuman, who is accused of gunning down Russell ‘Rusty’ Sneiderman outside of a Dunwoody pre-school last November, had filed motions asking Judge Gregory Adams to suppress Neuman’s statements to police and evidence found in the search warrant of his East Cobb home.

In documents filed this week, Adams denied both requests.

The two motions had been highly contested between the defense and DA’s office during pre-trial hearings in August.

for at least an hour before reading him his Miranda rights, learned nothing new after reading him those rights, that he was coerced to speak and that he did not feel free to leave during the interview.

Judge Adams did not see it that way. In his findings of fact, he wrote:

“The defendant voluntarily accompanied officers to the Dunwoody Police Department, that the defendant spoke to and gave a video recorded statement to officers of the Dunwoody Police Department, that during the defendant’s statement there was no coercive police or government activity, that during defendant’s statement there were no improper threats or promises, that during defendant’s statement the defendant did not exercise his Constitutional right to remain silent nor did defendant make an unambiguous or unequivocal request for counsel, and that the defendant was not in custody until formed that he was under arrested at the completion of the recorded statement,”

Neuman’s attorneys also argued that the search warrants that included his East Cobb home and an apartment he was staying at in Buckhead, were done in violation of his rights. They argued that the warrants were not clear enough in what each was searching for and it wasn’t clear which place was Neuman’s residence (the Buckhead apartment or the East Cobb home). They’d also argued that the search of his East Cobb home was done improperly ().

Adams denied those motions.

Adams did grant a motion to allow for questioning potential jurors and sequestering them during that process.

Neuman’s attorneys still have an opportunity to present motions against any recently filed evidence.

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