The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office is keeping a list of police officers who have credibility problems as witnesses on the stand but is refusing to make it public, an attorney alleges in a challenge to the DA’s refusal to provide the list under the Freedom of Information Law.

In a suit filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, criminal defense attorney Andrew Stengel says he has personal knowledge of such a list from his previous stint as a prosecutor in Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance Jr.’s office and from statements that a prosecutor made during criminal proceedings for one of Stengel’s clients. 

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