Raymond T. Mahlberg v. Edward J. Mentzer, Individually and in His Official Capacity

LOKEN, Circuit Judge.

Raymond Mahlberg appeals the judgment of the district court 1 entered after a jury rejected his § 1983 claims that Edward Mentzer, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) police officer, violated Mahl-berg’s Fourth Amendment rights in arresting Mahlberg and searching his home. Mahlberg contends that he is entitled to a new trial because the district court misconstrued Payton v. New York, 445 U.S. 573, 100 S.Ct. 1371, 63 L.Ed.2d 639 (1980), because the jury verdict is against the weight of the evidence supporting his claim of an illegal search, and because the district…