Robert Tulloch

Robert Tulloch, 41, 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 state’s highest court declined to take up the question of whether Robert Tulloch’s two life sentences without possibility of parole are constitutional, ordering that the issue first be dealt with at a resentencing hearing that Tulloch has been seeking for years in Grafton County Superior Court.

A man who pleaded guilty in the 2001 stabbing deaths of two Dartmouth College professors when he was 16 has asked a judge for a shorter sentence.James…