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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 in Duluth.
- Prosecutors and the defense agreed the previous 50-year sentence was unauthorized, leaving Hopps with only three legal options: parole eligibility after 30, 60, or 90 years.
- Warren, then 18, shot three victims at a house party on March 28, 1994, after driving approximately 24 miles to retrieve his father's.44 Magnum revolver from his parents' home.
- Attorney Brad Colbert stated Warren intends to appeal the ruling, though the new sentence delays parole eligibility until 2054, when Warren will be 78 years old.
- Victim's father Roy Hermanson said there is "no point in rubbing salt in the wound," though families continue grappling with trauma 32 years after the killings.
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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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