The daughter of John Negroponte, a former U.S. director of national intelligence, has been found guilty of second-degree murder and faces spending the next four decades behind bars.
A jury on Tuesday convicted Sophia Negroponte, 29, in the 2020 stabbing death of her friend Yousuf Rasmussen.Maryland authorities responded to a 911 call on Feb. 13, 2020, that a man had been stabbed in the neck during an altercation at an Airbnb. When they arrived, they found Negroponte covered in blood and lying on top of Rasmussen, yelling,"I'm sorry," according to court records.
Negroponte's lawyer, David Moyse, told jurors that they should factor in the role alcohol played in the altercation. He argued that she had so much alcohol in her system that she couldn't form specific intent, the Washington Post reported.
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