ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) — The daughter of former U.S. intelligence director John Negroponte was sentenced to 35 years in jail on Friday for the deadly stabbing of a pal after a drunken argument at a Maryland house.
Sophia Negroponte, 33, was sentenced by Montgomery County Circuit Court docket Choose Terrence McGann. A jury discovered her responsible in November of second-degree homicide for the dying of 24-year-old Yousuf Rasmussen. It was a retrial after a 2023 conviction on the identical cost was overturned.
“The 35-year sentence mirrors the sentence imposed following the primary trial in 2023. That is an applicable and simply consequence in mild of the seriousness of this crime and the constant findings of two separate juries who fastidiously evaluated the proof,” stated Montgomery County State’s Lawyer John McCarthy.
The preliminary conviction was overturned in 2024 after an appeals court docket dominated the jury had been allowed to listen to contested parts of a police interrogation of Sophia Negroponte and testimony from a prosecution witness questioning her credibility.
Sophia Negroponte, of Washington, D.C., was considered one of 5 deserted or orphaned Honduran kids adopted by John Negroponte and his spouse after he was appointed as U.S. ambassador to the Central American nation within the Eighties, in line with The Washington Publish.
Former President George W. Bush appointed John Negroponte because the nation’s first intelligence director in 2005. He later served as deputy secretary of state. He additionally served as ambassador to Mexico, the Philippines, the United Nations and Iraq.