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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Holly Ramer and Kathy McCormack

Man who killed Dartmouth professors at 17 seeks reduced prison sentence

Dartmouth Murders Hearing - (Copyright 2001 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

A Vermont man who was 17 when he and a friend killed a pair of married Dartmouth College professors 25 years ago is seeking to have his life sentence reduced to a minimum of 30 to 40 years.

Robert Tulloch, now 43, was automatically sentenced to life without parole after pleading guilty to first-degree murder in the 2001 stabbing deaths of Half and Susanne Zantop. But the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2012 that mandatory sentences of life without parole are unconstitutional for juveniles, and later applied that decision retroactively.

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