A broad review of old cases handled by a retired New York City detective has turned up a witness to a 1995 murder who says the police coached him to lie.

The New York Times says Sharron Ivory was interviewed in recent weeks as part of a probe by the Brooklyn district attorney into some 50 cases worked by Detective Louis Scarcella.

Prosecutors have cast a critical eye at Scarcella’s work after a judge threw out the conviction of a man accused of killing a Brooklyn rabbi in 1990.

Ivory told the Times he lied nearly 20 years ago when he said he could identify the suspect who shot his 4-year-old cousin. She was hit by a stray bullet.

Scarcella had been credited with solving sensational cases.

(AP)