A Vermont man who was 17 when he helped kill two Dartmouth College professors more than two decades ago is asking a New Hampshire judge to reduce his life sentence, arguing he should become eligible for parole after serving 30 to 40 years.
Robert Tulloch, now 43, was automatically sentenced to life without the possibility of parole after pleading guilty to first-degree murder in the 2001 stabbing deaths of Half and Susanne Zantop. But a series of U.S. Supreme Court rulings beginning in 2012 found mandatory life-without-parole sentences for juvenile offenders unconstitutional, later making that decision retroactive.
