On Friday, Brittany Norwood will be ordered to spend the rest of her life behind bars. The only question before a Montgomery County judge is whether the 29-year-old woman should ever have a chance to receive parole after brutally beating a yoga store co-worker to death.
The answer, prosecutors say, is no.
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“The defendant’s ability to manipulate and deceive, coupled with her lack of remorse, speak to her potential for future dangerousness,” State’s Attorney John McCarthy wrote in a sentencing memorandum. “She is a pathological liar and poses a tremendous danger to the community should she ever be released.”
Norwood is scheduled to be sentenced for killing 30-year-old Jayna Murray at the Lululemon Athletica in Bethesda in March. According to prosecutors, Norwood lured Murray to the store to kill her, then staged a crime scene and pretended to be a victim, telling authorities that two masked men had attacked the women. A jury convicted Norwood of first-degree murder in November, and the charge carries a mandatory life sentence.
