The New Hampshire Supreme Court will not decide what happens next to a man who killed two Dartmouth College professors decades ago.
Robert Tulloch’s defense team had asked the state Supreme Court to take a look at his case, but the court says before he’s resentenced, it’s up to the lower court to decide whether it’s constitutional to sentence juveniles to life.
Tulloch was 17 when he and James Parker stabbed Dartmouth College professors Half and Susanne Zantop in 2001 while posing as students conducting a survey.
Tulloch was originally sentenced to a mandatory sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole. Almost ten years after his conviction, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a separate case that an automatic sentence of life without parole for juveniles was unconstitutional.
