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Dispute threatens Kline's case
The Associated Press
Published Sunday, May 18, 2008
Published Sunday, May 18, 2008
An extraordinary legal fight over patients' medical records has prompted the Kansas Supreme Court to prevent a key witness from appearing in a criminal case against an abortion clinic.
In an added twist, the witness is a lower court judge who once supervised prosecutor Phill Kline's investigation of the clinic, operated by Planned Parenthood in suburban Kansas City, Kan. Also, the state's attorney general has sided with the clinic in its records dispute against Kline.
The dispute threatens to delay Kline's prosecution of the clinic on 107 criminal charges, including falsifying records and performing illegal late-term abortions. A hearing is scheduled for May 27 and 28 to determine whether the case goes to trial in Johnson County, but the clinic hopes to delay the case until the Supreme Court settles questions about the records.