PORT ANGELES — Amber Steim, a Port Angeles woman accused of vehicular homicide in the March 6 death of Ellen J. DeBondt, will have DNA testing done in Portland, Ore., this week.
Clallam County Superior Court Judge S. Brooke Taylor signed an order modifying conditions of release Friday.
Steim, 24, will be allowed to travel to the Intermountain Forensics Laboratories in Portland on Thursday.
She was ordered to return to Clallam County by 8 p.m.
Steim is accused of having a blood-alcohol level of 0.239 percent after the wreck that killed DeBondt on state Highway 112 east of Joyce.
DeBondt, 44, was a well-known nurse and outdoorswoman.
Steim’s trial is scheduled to begin Dec. 5.
A ruling is pending on a motion to sever a witness tampering charge from Steim’s vehicular homicide case.
