People v. Etoll

OPINION OF THE COURT

Memorandum.

*841The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed.

At trial, two notebooks containing prostitution records were admitted into evidence against defendant. On this appeal defendant contends that these notebooks, which were seized by a police officer who was lawfully in her apartment for the purpose of executing an arrest warrant, should not have been admitted into evidence under the "plain view” doctrine because the incriminatory nature of this evidence was not "immediately apparent”. (See Coolidge v New Hampshire, 403 US 443, 466.) While we agree with…