By Prince George's County Ex-Pat and N.S.
fri, mar 31, 2023 3:46 p.m.
"Sophia Negroponte is jailed for 35 years after stabbing 'best friend'"
"The daughter of the former us national intelligence director has been sentenced to 35 years in prison after 'rage drove' her to stab her 'best friend' to death in a maryland airbnb.
"Sophia Negroponte, 29, was convicted of second-degree murder in january for killing Yousuf Rasmussen, 24, in february 2020.
"she stabbed him multiple times and delivered a fatal blow to his neck when he returned to get his cell phone following an argument between the pair.
"montgomery county circuit court judge Terrence J. McGann ordered her to serve 35 years behind bars on friday and said her pent up anger issues, made worse by alcohol, drove her to knifing her friend.
"She is the daughter of John Negroponte, who spent a long career in Washington as a diplomat before being named the united states first-ever director of national intelligence in 2005.
"Ahead of his sentencing McGann said: 'Rage drove Ms. Negroponte to stab her friend in the neck.'"
"Rage" didn't "drive" the killer to murder her "friend." "Rage" isn't some extenal force that drives anyone to do anything. Sophia Negroponte is, simply, a murderous, honduran thug. The dm buried that salient fact way down in the last paragraph (20th!) of the "thing," after a long headline, three subheds, and six repetitious photo captions: "Negroponte and his wife, Diana Negroponte, adopted five girls during their time in honduras - Sophia, George, John, Alexandra, and Marina." So, this was an immigration murder. No wonder the dm sought to bury one of the most important facts of the case.
More garbage:
"Sophia Negroponte and Rasmussen attended the same Washington high school and had been drinking at a maryland airbnb, along with another person, on the night Rasmussen was killed, montgomery county state's attorney John McCarthy said."
What's this passive voice crap? You expect that from the defense attorney, but not from the prosecutor. He's supposed to say, "On the night Negroponte murdered Rasmussen."
"'Neither the prosecutors nor perhaps the jury took into sufficient consideration the complexities and mitigating circumstances of the case - Sophia's past trauma and other factors that led to a very troubled existence. She's had severe alcohol use disorder.'"
"Complexities"? It's as simple as could be.
"Mitigating circumstances"? There were none; there were only aggravating circumstances.
"Sophia's past trauma"? The murderer has led a life of extreme privilege. I want me some of that "past trauma"!
"severe alcohol use disorder"? That's nine syllables worth of flim-flam, subsituting for one syllable: drunk.
So, was that a democrat defense lawyer speaking? No; it was her irresponsible, wimpy, republican "father"!
"following an argument between the pair." dm operative Kamal Sultan and Stephen M. Lepore make it sound like this was an objective fact, but it could only be a story concocted by the killer's defense attorney. A thug like Sophia "Negroponte" doesn't get in "arguments" with people, she batters and murders them. See "verbal dispute."
I'd love to know how many free crimes this monster had previously been issued. She didn't suddenly become a murderous thug at the age of 26. Nobody does.
I'd also like to know the backstory on her victim, "Yousuf Rasmussen." He doesn't look like any Rasmussen I've ever seen. And "Yousuf"? Was this an immigrant-adoptee-slaughters-an-immigrant-adoptee story? That's too interesting a story for the media to tell.
https://mol.im/a/11925597
I though the same thing about Rasmussen and that first name of Yousef. Joseph more appropriate. He was another adoptee? Sophia a hot blooded Latin female? Sophia probably got raised in the most appropriate manner possible but you can't take the Latin out of the Latin.
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