Court upholds sentences for 2 convicted of murder as teens KATHY McCORMACK, Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The sentences of two men convicted of murder as teenagers decades ago were upheld Tuesday by the New Hampshire Supreme Court, which disagreed with their lawyers that the terms amount to life imprisonment. Robert Dingman, 42, was 17 when he and his 14-year-old brother fatally shot their parents in 1996 in their Rochester home. He was sentenced to mandatory life in prison without parole. His brother, Jeffrey Dingman, testified against him, got 30 years to life in a plea deal, and was released in 2013. Eduardo Lopez Jr., 47, was convicted of fatally shooting Robert Goyette in 1991 while trying to steal his car in Nashua. He, too, was 17 when the crime happened and received the same sentence as Robert Dingman.