Judge to murderer: 'Society needs to be protected from the likes of you'

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A Superior Court judge sentenced a 30-year-old city man to serve life in prison plus at least 25 years for his role in gunning down an unarmed 26-year-old man.

Judge Robert Krause sentenced Michael Tully to life for murdering Ralph Joseph plus 10 years to serve concurrently for conspiring to rob him of $1,100. In addition, Krause gave Tully 10 1/2 years for violating his probation and 20 years, with 15 to serve, consecutively before he would be eligible for parole, for being a habitual offender.

Krause said he did not know how old Tully would be before he would be eligible for release but that "society needs to be protected from the likes of you."