Topeka ? A hearing has been postponed indefinitely for a Kansas prosecutor facing a professional ethics complaint over past investigations of abortion providers.

The Disciplinary Administrator’s office said Tuesday that prosecutor Stephen D. Maxwell’s hearing won’t be held March 23-24 as planned.

The administrator’s office filed a complaint last year with the Board for Discipline of Attorneys. It alleges misconduct by Maxwell while he was an assistant attorney general from 2003 to 2007 and an assistant Johnson County district attorney in 2007-2008.

The complaint alleges Maxwell misled others to further investigations of abortion providers. Maxwell denies the allegations.

An attorney for Maxwell confirmed the delay in the hearing but wouldn’t comment further.