Alonzo Bonner v. Joseph Coughlin

STEVENS, Circuit Judge.

Appellant contends that his constitutionally protected interest in privacy and property were violated by a “shakedown” search of his prison cell which resulted in the loss of his trial transcript. He asserts a federal right to recover damages on three different theories: (1) that the transcript was taken during the conduct of a search which violated the Fourth Amendment; (2) that the taking of the transcript was a deprivation of property prohibited by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment; and (3) that the defendants 1 interfered with his access to the…