The New York City Law Department claims its subpoena of outtakes from Ken Burns’ film about the Central Park jogger case poses no threat to the independence of documentary filmmakers.

The city asked a federal judge on Dec. 5 to enforce a subpoena for outtakes from the recently released “The Central Park Five” for use in its defense of a $250 million civil rights suit filed by five men who spent time in prison for the 1989 rape and near-fatal assault on jogger Patricia Meili before another man came forward to admit he had committed the crime and their convictions were vacated.

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