Andrea Sneiderman, the Georgia woman accused of lying about her husband's death, was convicted on Monday of nine out of the 13 felony counts against her including perjury.
Andrea's husband, Rusty Sneiderman, was shot in the parking lot of a Dunwoody preschool facility in November 2010, convicting her former boss Hemy Neuman of the crime two years after. During the prosecution of her husband's case, Andrea denied her involvement in the shooting, and even refused the allegation that she was covertly having an affair with Neuman. Neuman was however found mentally deranged, leading prosecutors to suspect the Georgia woman of lying against the investigating police team and making false statements despite being under oath during the trial period.
The Dunwoody widow, who received a 13-count indictment, was convicted of nine charges which include: four counts out of the initially seven counts of perjury, three out of four counts of making false statements, concealing material evidence, and hampering the conviction of the criminal.
Earlier, the state had already dropped murder charges against Sneiderman, but she declined the plea, which only required her to serve her time in prison for less than a year, and opted to go with a jury, believing that they were on her side.
"It felt like a cover-up," commented one of the jurors who spoke to the media after the 11-hour deliberation inside the court. He added that the six-woman, six-man panel had to go back to her previous testimonies during Neuman's trial, for them to decide.
Sneiderman is to face a maximum sentence of at least five to 10 years for every count while her perjury charges will be considered as one count as dictated by the Georgia law-sentencing standards.
"She could have taken the Fifth at the first trial, but she still could have been tried some of these offenses for having given false statements to the police. But by having that testimony at the first trial on tape, the jury had no question about what she had said," Atlanta criminal defense attorney B.J. Bernstein said.
Andrea's two kids are currently staying at her parents in John Creek, where she was been previously house arrested for about a year, and was only freed prior to her own trial's commencement. No custody action on her kids has been raised at the moment.
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