Olathe ? A Kansas judge is considering the future of a criminal case against a Planned Parenthood clinic following the disclosure that state documents later sought as evidence were destroyed.

A hearing is set Wednesday in Johnson County District Court.

Individual reports about 23 abortions at the clinic were filed with the state health department, as required by law, but shredded in 2005.

The clinic faces criminal charges, including allegations that it falsified its copies of those records when it produced them for a judge in another county in 2006. Charges were filed in 2007.

Planned Parenthood denies any wrongdoing. Its attorneys say the shredding was mandated under state regulations. But abortion opponents are suspicious because the shredding occurred during the administration of former Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, an abortion rights Democrat.