PORT ANGELES — It may be three weeks before Bruce Rowan finds out if he will be allowed to move into an unlocked ward at Western State Hospital — and eventually away from the mental hospital’s campus.
Clallam County Superior Court Judge George L. Wood said he will issue either an oral or written ruling on allowing Rowan to enter the hospital’s Community Program after the jurist returns from vacation in about three weeks.
In the meantime, Rowan will remain locked up in a ward in Steilacoom, his attorney, David Allen, said.
Rowan on Tuesday testified in the second day of a court hearing to determine whether the former doctor, who killed his wife in 1998, is ready for “conditional release.”
Rowan said that things have “changed dramatically” since entering treatment for killing Deborah Rowan in March 1998.
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