Judge Charles Sandoval, of 380th District Court, will deny the defense attorney’s request to move the capital murder trial of Kosoul Chanthakoummane out of Collin County, court coordinator Lisa Renfro said.Chanthakoummane’s attorney, Steven R. Miears of Bonham, filed a change of venue motion and subpoenaed several members of the Dallas/Fort Worth news media and McKinney Police Department public information officer Capt. Randy Roland to testify on the local and national coverage of the murder of real estate agent Sarah Anne Walker, 40, of Frisco, and Chanthakoummane’s, 26, subsequent arrest.Chanthakoummane is accused of stabbing and beating Walker to death in a D.R. Horton model home on July 8, 2006. He is being held in Collin County Detention Center on a $1 million bond.The Collin County District Attorney’s Office intends to seek the death penalty, according to court records.Renfro said Sandoval had not officially signed the order she was constructing Thursday that would deny Miears’ motion.Miears filed 39 subpoenas July 11 ordering several Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex media outlets, including the McKinney Courier-Gazette, the Dallas Morning News and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram as well as various television and radio stations to present the court with stories and circulation records surrounding the Walker case. Only two of the news outlets sent representatives to court Thursday to testify, including Courier-Gazette Managing Editor Dave Sorter and Circulation Manager Ken McEwen, and KLIF Program Director James Fisher. The remaining outlets either filed affidavits containing clips of archived stories, including a feature filed by “America’s Most Wanted” and a transcript of an interview with Roland on Fox News’ “On the Record with Greta Van Susteren,” or motions to quash Miears’ subpoenas. Miears called Roland to testify on his role as the McKinney PD’s public information officer during the weeks leading up to Chanthakoummane’s arrest. He said his role was to provide information to the community that would lead to more information in the case and convey a sense of confidence in the police department’s work.Miears told the Courier-Gazette earlier this month he intended to seek a change of venue because he was concerned his client would not be able to find a fair and impartial jury.“What I’m concerned about is being able to get a jury picked that can still follow the law as far as the defendant’s right to a fair trial and whether or not there’s enough publicity in the case to have affected the jury pool so that we can find 12 people who can follow the law,” Miears said. “Not only to follow the law as far as it applies to the guilt-innocence phase, but also to be able to rationally go through the special issues on whether or not he should receive life without parole or the death penalty.”