The daughter of the nation’s first director of national intelligence was convicted of second-degree murder Thursday, the second time in three years a jury concluded that Sophia Negroponte stabbed her close friend inside a small Airbnb apartment in Rockville, Maryland.

Negroponte, 32, sat quietly as the verdict was announced and began dabbing her eyes. The conviction from the earlier trial had been overturned by a state appeals court.

Her parents, John and Diana Negroponte, were again in court to watch the proceedings. They sat quietly on the front row as the verdict was announced. A longtime diplomat, Negroponte, 86, was appointed to the DNI post in 2005.

Also in court Thursday, and just across the front-row aisle from the Negroponte’s, the parents of the 24-year-old victim, Yousuf Rasm

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