The debate over grand jury records connected to the chokehold death of Eric Garner at the hands of the police took a new turn on Friday as lawyers argued over whether the Staten Island district attorney’s office should provide that material to the Civilian Complaint Review Board.

The board, which is charged with investigating police misconduct, filed a court petition in May seeking evidence and testimony presented to the grand jury. Lawyers for the review board wrote that those records were needed to review New York Police Department actions related to Mr. Garner’s death last summer during an attempted arrest. They added that “efforts to obtain evidence from the N.Y.P.D. concerning that investigation have not been successful.”

The district attorney’s office opposed the request, saying that the board lacked standing to obtain the records, which are traditionally kept secret, and that their disclosure would undermine the ability of future grand juries to reach decisions free of outside influences.

On Friday, Justice William E. Garnett of State Supreme Court on Staten Island questioned the review board’s lawyer, Brian Krist, asking several times how the grand jury evidence would be safeguarded and who would be responsible if it were leaked.