by Patrick H. Moore
I hate to say it but once again I’ve called the outcome. This morning in Georgia in the DeKalb County Courthouse, Judge Gregory A. Adams sentenced Andrea Sneiderman to five years in prison (less the time she’s already served under house arrest) based on her various perjury-related convictions stemming from her trial testimony in the Hemy Neuman case as well as other false statements she made to investigators during the course of the Neuman investigation.
Readers of All things Crime Blog may remember that in a previous Sneiderman post entitled “Andrea Sneiderman Is Taking a Huge Risk by Going to Trial”, I suggested that the evidence against her appeared to be quite strong and that if she was convicted she could could get as much as five years in prison. Here is my exact quote from the previous post:
As anyone who has been following this case knows, there have been dramatic twists and turns in these proceedings including the recent dismissal of the murder charges against Sneiderman. Although she and her team seem confident that she will be acquitted of the remaining charges, I can’t help but think that she is taking a huge risk by going to trial, especially when one considers that she was offered a “sweetheart” plea deal — thought to be for one year — which she turned down.
More recent information suggests that the plea deal that Sneiderman was offered was substantially more than one year and may have been as much as five years of which she would have been required to serve three. Thus, it appears that she had little choice other than to go to trial even though the deck was certainly stacked against her.
Sneiderman has already been either in custody or on house arrest for nearly one year.
Remarkably (and unfortunately for Sneiderman), Georgia is one of the few Southern states that does not offer good time credit for inmates convicted of non-violent crimes. In other states, the good time credit may eliminate half — or in some instances — more than half of the sentence. Thus, Sneiderman will presumably have to serve the entire four remaining years after subtracting the time she is credited with for have been under house arrest. The judge did grant Sneiderman Georgia First Offender Act status which means that once she has completed her sentence, her felony conviction will eventually be expunged so that it will not show up on her record when applying for jobs or other services.
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None of this does Andrea Sneiderman much good right now. I am sure she is in a state of shock and will remain in a state of shock for some time.
Click here to view our previous posts concerning the Andrea Sneiderman trial:
Andrea Sneiderman Trial: Sex, Death and Romantic Love
Andrea Sneiderman Is Taking a Huge Risk by Going to Trial
Andrea Sneiderman Reportredly “Gave In” to Hemy Neuman in London