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Prosecutors, defense mull options after conviction reversed

FILE - In this March 15, 2012 file photo, Hemy Neuman is escorted by DeKalb County Deputies after his sentencing during the his trial in the DeKalb County Courthouse, in Decatur, Ga. The Georgia Supreme Court has reversed the conviction of Neuman, who was involved in a love triangle that led to a killing outside an Atlanta-area preschool. The court announced the 6-1 decision involving Neuman in an opinion released Monday morning, June 15, 2015. (Jason Getz/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, File) FILE - In this March 15, 2012 file photo, Hemy Neuman is escorted by DeKalb County Deputies after his sentencing during the his trial in the DeKalb County Courthouse, in Decatur, Ga. The Georgia Supreme Court has reversed the conviction of Neuman, who was involved in a love triangle that led to a killing outside an Atlanta-area preschool. The court announced the 6-1 decision involving Neuman in an opinion released Monday morning, June 15, 2015. (Jason Getz/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, File)

By Associated Press June 16, 2015 1 min read

ATLANTA (AP) – Prosecutors and defense lawyers must now chart a new course through a sea of legal questions after Georgia’s highest court reversed the murder conviction of a man accused of killing a father who had just dropped off his son at an Atlanta-area preschool.

Monday’s 6-1 ruling by the Georgia Supreme Court renews a complicated criminal case that prosecutors said stemmed from a deadly love-triangle.

Hemy Neuman was sentenced to life in prison without chance of parole for the November 2010 killing of Russell “Rusty” Sneiderman. A jury in March 2012 found Neuman guilty but mentally ill of malice murder in Sneiderman’s death.

Erik Burton, a spokesman for the DeKalb County District Attorney’s Office said in a statement that prosecutors “will be prepared to retry the case.”