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January 27, 2015
The murder trial for the man accused of murdering a Willow Creek resident in early 2010 was rescheduled during a trial readiness hearing Wednesday at the Humboldt County Superior Courthouse after the prosecution indicated a potential time conflict with another upcoming murder trial and a need to secure witnesses.
“I can assure that the people have been making every effort to secure the necessary witnesses,” Assistant District Attorney Kelly Neel said to Judge John Feeney.
Limmie Greg Curry III, 24, stood handcuffed in the courtroom wearing an orange jail jumpsuit and briefly consulted with his attorney Deputy Public Defender Casey Russo before the start of the hearing. Curry is accused of murdering 46-year-old William “Billie” Reid on Feb. 3, 2010, at a rural property off State Route 299 near Willow Creek, allegedly to rob him and take over his marijuana growing operation. The prosecution also alleged that Curry and a conspirator — Reid’s roommate Eddie Lee — burned Reid’s body before burying the charred skeletal remains at the site of an old marijuana grow on Reid’s property. Lee was acquitted of his charges after Feeney ruled in October 2014 that there wasn’t enough evidence for the case to go to the jury. As a result of that decision, the district attorney’s office is barred from appealing and charging Lee with the same charges in the future.
During a 2013 trial, Curry was found guilty by a 12-member jury on a felony marijuana possession charge, but the jury deadlocked in July at 7-5 in favor of acquittal on the murder charge and its attached special allegations. The judge declared a mistrial, but the district attorney’s office refiled the murder charge.
Neel stated that she made the motion for a continuance for Curry’s scheduled Jan. 26 jury selection date due to the upcoming murder trial she is prosecuting against Matthew Aaron Brown, the man accused of fatally shooting 49-year-old Neil Eugene Decker in the Alderpoint area last year. Brown’s trial has failed to be assigned a courtroom twice this month due to there being no room on any court schedules.
