Glenn County Observer
Steve Burdell Currier, convicted of murder following a 1984 stabbing in the Crossroads Bar in Willows, was denied parole on Thursday, June 30.
On June 30, Steve Currier entered into a three-year parole denial stipulation at the virtual parole board hearing. He will serve an additional three years before parole will be considered again.
District Attorney Dwayne R. Stewart wrote a letter to the California Board of Parole Hearings, voicing Glenn County’s opposition to his parole from California State Prison-Corcoran and attended electronically. The hearing was also attended by Bill and Patricia Stewart, the victim’s father and stepmother.
Inmate Currier, now 61 years old, was previously convicted of murder and sentenced to 31 years to life. On Nov. 6, 1984, Steve Currier, then 26, was harassing and threatening to kill another patron (S.M.) at the Crossroads Bar.
The inmate told S.M. he “would take care of him” and revealed a knife, threatening to “cut his heart out” and saying that it was nothing for him to take a life. A third patron, Todd Stewart, stood up and began to put on his coat and Mr. Stewart remarked that Currier was not really going to stab anyone.
Inmate Currier responded by stabbing Mr. Stewart, who succumbed to his wounds later that night. Meanwhile, Currier threatened the bartender, who locked herself in the bar’s office, telling her, “If you snitch on me, I’ll cut your heart all the way out.”
The inmate stated to a registered nurse drawing his blood that night, “I finally got my wish, I got someone.”
Currier had previously been convicted in 1978 of assault with a deadly weapon on an officer, for shooting (non-fatally) a Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office deputy.
Previous to this crime, Currier had spent most of his adult life incarcerated in the prison system.
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