Court records show 55-year-old Dexter Tolliver, who was released from prison after committing murder as a teenager, is facing rape charges in Georgia.
MARIETTA, Ga. (WJRT) – A Saginaw native who was recently released from prison for killing another man as a teenager has been indicted on criminal charges in Georgia.
Court records show 55-year-old Dexter Tolliver is accused of several crimes, including criminal attempt to commit rape and false imprisonment. Police say he attacked a woman in her Marietta, Ga., apartment in October.
Tolliver was 15 years old when he killed an 84-year-old man in his Saginaw home in 1984. A jury convicted Tolliver of first-degree murder and he received a mandatory sentence of life in prison with no chance of parole.
Since then, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that life-without-parole sentences for juvenile offenders constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. All juveniles sentenced to life behind bars received a chance for a lesser sentence.
Tolliver received a new sentence in 2023 and he was released from prison in April 2024 after serving 40 years. He was only free for about six months before the alleged crimes took place in Georgia.
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