People v. Perel

Chief Judge Breitel.

Defendant appeals from a conviction for abortion in the second degree, after a jury trial (Penal Law, § 125.40). He was sentenced on five counts to concurrent terms of up to four years imprisonment.

Defendant contends that slips of paper, listing women upon whom he had performed abortions, were obtained by illegal search and seizure. The conviction should be affirmed. The search and seizure of the slips of paper from a police property envelope, in which defendant’s possessions previously on his person had been placed after arrest, was reasonable. The search and seizure did…