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Andrea Sneiderman to be released on bond

Andrea Sneiderman bond hearing August 21, 2012 DECATUR Andrea Sneiderman talks with attorneys before a bond hearing in Dekalb Superior Court Tuesday, August 21, 2012 . Sneiderman was indicted Aug 2 on charges she was a co-conspirator with her former boss, Hemy Neuman, who is serving life in prison without parole for the November 2010 fatal shooting of Rusty Sneiderman outside a Dunwoody day-care facility. (KENT D. JOHNSON / KDJOHNSON@AJC.COM)

Andrea Sneiderman spent one more night in the DeKalb County Jail, but it should be her last before her trial.

The woman charged with helping to murder her husband, Rusty Sneiderman, outside a daycare in Dunwoody is expected to be out of jail sometime Wednesday.

Sneiderman was granted $500,000 bond Tuesday. But it still may be a while before she gets out because there are a lot of hoops for the widow to jump through.

As a condition of her release, Judge Gregory Adams ordered Sneiderman to pay half the money -- $250,000 – in cash.

Sneiderman must also be fitted for an ankle monitor and will be under house arrest at her parents’ house. She is not allowed to have with potential witnesses, except for her family members and her rabbi. But Judge Adams did say he would consider letting her speak to other witnesses if the defense gave him a list of people they would like for her to be able to contact.

Prosecutors had argued that Sneiderman did not follow instructions during the murder trial of Hemy Neuman, the man convicted of killing her husband. They believed she would not follow the conditions of her bond.

WSB Legal Analyst Ron Carlson says her conduct during the Hemy Neuman trial may have weighed into the decision, "including her appearance in the witness waiting room to talk to state witnesses from General Electric."  Those actions got her banned from the DeKalb County Courthouse, a point prosecutors did not lax on.

The defense argued they would be satisfied with any bond, no matter the conditions.

Carlson expected defense attorneys to portray her as a mother with local ties "through witnesses who will say she is not likely to flee," says Carlson. "The presence of the children assists that argument very much." The defense, indeed, did use those arguments during Sneiderman's bond hearing.



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