This story was originally produced by the Valley News . NHPR is republishing it in partnership with the Granite State News Collaborative .

A man who has spent the past 24 years in prison on a life sentence without possibility of parole for murdering two Dartmouth College professors in 2001 now is eligible to be considered for release in the future.

The change in his eligibility leaving prison comes following a Grafton County Superior Court judge’s ruling last month that life in prison without parole for juvenile offenders runs afoul of the New Hampshire state constitution.

Robert Tulloch, of Chelsea, was 17 years old when he and an accomplice tricked their way into the Etna home of husband and wife Half and Susanne Zantop and murdered them as part of a robbery.

Now at age 4

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