Overview
- Montgomery County Circuit Court Judge Terrence McGann imposed a 35-year prison term on Friday in Rockville, Maryland.
- A jury in November found Negroponte guilty of second-degree murder at a retrial for the killing of 24-year-old Yousuf Rasmussen.
- Prosecutors said the stabbing followed a night of drinking and an argument at a Rockville home on Feb. 13, 2020, with Rasmussen pronounced dead at the scene.
- The Maryland appeals court overturned her 2023 conviction after finding jurors improperly heard parts of a police interrogation and testimony questioning her credibility.
- State’s Attorney John McCarthy said the sentence mirrors the first trial’s outcome and called it an appropriate result; Negroponte, 33, is the daughter of former U.S. intelligence director John Negroponte.