INDEPENDENCE- A Coralville woman charged with killing one young son and trying to kill another will go on trial in a little more than two weeks.

Michelle Kehoe is accused of killing her son Seth, 2, with a knife and wounding her older son Sean, 6, as well. The attack took place in rural Buchanan County near Littleton almost a year ago.

Kehoe and her attorney raised a lot of pre-trial issues earlier. The arguments included whether or not her husband, Eugene, could continue to visit her in jail and whether pre-trial publicity meant the trial should take place somewhere besides Independence.

But the final conference before the trial starts October 28th produced little for either side to fight about.

The judge ruled earlier that Eugene Kehoe could not come to the jail for visits because he's a likely witness in the case. And last month, after calling a mock jury, Judge Bruce Zager decided Buchanan County residents had heard too much about the case and ordered the change of venue to Grundy County. The mock jury found more than half the potential jurors in Buchanan County already had an opinion about the case.

At Tuesday's final meeting, prosecutors only asked that members of the Kehoe family stay outside the courtroom during the defense case if they plan to testify.

Andrew Prosser, assistant Iowa Attorney General said "the rule of witnesses will apply to those witnesses during the presentation of the defense case. That means they won't sit in and watch it and won't discuss with each other what the rest of them have testified to."

The judge noted that 15 people will sit and hear the case. That will include 12 jurors and three alternates.