One of the two suspects charged with the murders of professors Susanne and Half Zantop waived his right to a probable cause hearing yesterday, while attorneys for the media continued to press for more information.
Robert Tulloch, 17, was set to appear in Lebanon District Court yesterday afternoon, where prosecutors would have presented evidence against him, and witnesses supporting the state's case might have appeared.
But yesterday morning, Tulloch waived his right to the hearing, prolonging the secrecy that has surrounded this case since the beginning. The case now moves to Grafton County Superior Court in North Haverhill, N.H.
Meanwhile, several news organizations continued their fight to uncover some of this secrecy. Though Judge Albert J. Cirone Jr. had ruled last week that some information would be unsealed yesterday, the state filed a motion to reconsider.
In a three-hour hearing, the judge heard the motion yesterday, and, according to attorneys involved, he plans to release at least some of the information by this morning at 8 a.m.
Exactly what he plans to unseal is unclear at this point, but Gregory Sullivan, attorney for the Union Leader Corp., said portions of search warrants, arrest warrants, and corresponding affidavits will be released.
Sullivan said he did not know for sure what information would be in the portions released. The state protested some of the information being released but not all, he said.
The Union Leader Corporation, the Associated Press, the Valley News and WMUR-TV filed petitions earlier to open records requested sealed by the state. Cirone had unsealed some portions of the record already, but little more than what the state Attorney General had released previously.
