A Superior Court judge is standing by his ruling that sentences of life without the possibility of parole are unconstitutional for minors in New Hampshire.

The decision paves the way for the resentencing of Robert Tulloch, who is serving two such sentences for killing Dartmouth College professors Half and Susanne Zantop inside their Hanover home in 2001. Tulloch, who was 17 at the time of the murders, was given mandatory sentences of life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Judge Lawrence MacLeod earlier this week denied a request by the Attorney General’s Office to reconsider his July ruling agreeing with Tulloch’s lawyers that a life-without-parole sentence for a minor is both cruel and unusual.

MacLeod’s decision came after the New Hampshire Supreme Court declined to weigh i

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