A judge wants New Hampshires highest court to weigh in on the case

A judge wants New Hampshire’s highest court to weigh in on the case of a man who pleaded guilty as a teenager to the 2001 stabbing deaths of two married Dartmouth College professors and is challenging his sentence of life without parole. Robert Tulloch, 41, was 17 when he killed Half and Susanne Zantop as part of a conspiracy he and his best friend concocted to rob and kill people before fleeing to Australia with their ill-gotten gains. He awaits a resentencing hearing after the U.S. Supreme Court decided in 2012 that mandatory life sentences without parole for juveniles amount to “cruel and unusual” punishment. The New Hampshire attorney general’s office has not yet recommended what term Tulloch should serve when he’s resentenced; it hasn’t ruled out life without parole.