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The Hemy Neuman Trial: Widow Denies Affair with Suspect

The prosecutor sums up his opening argument: "To boil it down to a sentence, the man wanted someone else's wife."

Prosecutors laid out their argument Tuesday in the trial of Hemy Neuman, depicting him as a calculated killer who was not mentally ill when he shot a man outside a Dunwoody daycare center in 2010.

"To boil it down to a sentence, the man wanted someone else's wife," said Assistant District Attorney Don Geary.

Neuman has entered a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity.

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The victim, Russell 'Rusty' Sneiderman, was gunned down in Nov. 2010 after dropping off his 2-year-old son at daycare.

Defense lawyers argued that Neuman was mentally ill and obsessed with Sneiderman's wife, Andrea. The Defense said that Neuman's father, a Holocaust survivor, was emotionally damaged by that experience and that he physically abused Hemy Neuman and his siblings.

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Andrea Sneiderman testified for several hours on Tuesday afternoon, often seeming frustrated and upset with questions about her relationship with Neuman, who was her boss at GE. She denied having an affair with Neuman, and said she did her best to rebuff his claims that he loved her and wanted to marry her. She explained one email, in which she talked of feeling that she had committed an act of betrayal, by saying it was a reference to a time she had held hands with Neuman.

Referring to one il that Neuman send her, she said, "I viewed it very much as a silly boy email."

Last week, attorneys discussed a motion filed by the defense to suppress any discussion of delusions that Neuman may have experienced. Attorneys say Neuman believed he saw angels and demons, and also thought he was the father of Sneiderman's children.

Testimony about alleged delusions is being allowed. [Patch incorrectly reported the outcome of this discussion in an earlier version of this story.]

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