r peonality. durg the clongrguments, the focus was on andrea again. had she manipulated the unstable hemi pneumonia i can t know into killing her husband? the gun, in this case, was in hemi s hand, but the trigger, i respectfully suggest, was pulled by andrea snyderman. if he and andrea or as the prosecution argued, was newman trying to hide behind a fabricated illness to avoid answering for a murder plot that he concocted with his loafer? which is more likely. i see dead people. they re telling me to kill poem. or was it the woman who stood to gain $2 million and he did, too? he s not crazy. he s coconspiriting. on the third day of deliberations, the jury announced they had a verdict.
andrea was not in the courtroom to hear it. we tell jury find the defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt but mentally ill. the jury foreperson told dateline that the jurors believed hemi was mentally ill, but nonetheless should go to prison. we were all very passionate that we were not comfortable with hemi newman thinking that he could actually walk. was there a discussion of where is andrea snyderman? why are we not talking about her? for us, it was still, this is not about andrea snyderman. if there was an affair, that is between andrea snyderman and hemi pneumonia i canh hemi newman. i am oh, so, so sorry. i am sorry from the deepest part of me, your honor. and then it was over for the disgraced business executive.
newman was led away after the judge sentenced him to spend the rest of his life in prison. and in a written statement issued after the the verdict, andrea snyderman said she was grateful to the jurors and felt justice had timely been done for rusty. but the prosecution was not finished. in 2012 with, andrea snyderman was charged in the murder of her husband, rusty. those charges were dropped. then in august 2013, snyderman faced new charges and was found guilty of perjury and hindering the apprehension of a killer. sentenced to five years, in 2014, snyderman was released from prison and completed her parole three years later. in 2015, a break for hemi newman, ors was it? the georgia supreme court threw out her original conviction saying the trial court errored in admitting evidence protected by attorney-client privilege. but in a 2016 retrial, a jury
i didn t know what happened to rusty until i got to the emergency room. listen to what the father-in-law and friend told that andrea told them them before she got to the hospital. andrea called us and she called and said rusty had been shot. she was so so sorry. she immediately at the same time was screaming to me rusty had been shot. how had andrea known that fact, that rusty had been shot, if no one had told her yet. and perhaps most perplexing of all, within minutes of being told something happened to rusty, andrea had dialled and redialled her boss. but her husband, who she believed was in an accident. how many times did you call rusty. rusty? zero times. and demeanor issue. jurors heard a tape of andrea being told police had made
medical details of his friend as last moments. fourth and final shot through his neck to his spine spinal cord and paralyzed him and i think he was dead at that moment. one of the hardest things for me to see. after delivering the kill shot, witnesses testified that neuman calmly walked back to minivan and melted back into morning traffic. within hours back at desk observed juggling routine deals. what did he expect to happen next? prosecution explained how the murder had been plotted out. now wanted jury to understand why. rusty the last man standing between him and woman he loved, andrea. testified that the accused had become obsessed with her weeks after she started working for