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Duluth triple killer gets 10 years added to sentence
Judge Nicole Hopps said the original 30-year minimum was out of line, leaving Warren eligible for release only after 2054.
- Last month, Judge Nicole Hopps increased Todd Michael Warren's minimum incarceration term to 60 years after granting his petition to correct an unlawful sentence for a 1994 triple murder.
- Prosecutors and the defense agreed the previous 50-year sentence was unauthorized, leaving the court with only three options: parole eligibility after 30, 60, or 90 years.
- Warren, then 18, killed three people at a house party on March 28, 1994, after retrieving a.44 Magnum revolver from his parents' home approximately 24 miles away.
- Attorney Brad Colbert stated Warren intends to appeal the decision, though new parole eligibility is set for 2054, when he will be 78.
- Victim's father Roy Hermanson noted that while the added time does not change their loss, families continue to grapple with the tragedy 32 years later.
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Duluth triple killer gets 10 years added to sentence
DULUTH — Todd Michael Warren spent more than a quarter-century serving an unlawful sentence for shooting and killing three people at a house party in 1994. Even prosecutors agree that a judge departed from his legal authority when he ordered the defendant to spend a minimum of 50 years in prison. But Warren’s recent decision to reopen the case in hopes of securing his eventual release has only increased the likelihood that he will spend the rest…
·Cherokee County, United States
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