George Willis v. Christopher P. Artuz Daniel Connelly, Lieutenant Michael Haubert, Lieutenant Burrette, Co Gerbacz, Co

JACOBS, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is taken from a judgment, entered in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Yanthis, M.J.), dismissing as a matter of law an inmate’s § 1983 claim that prison officials violated his Fourth Amendment rights by conducting a warrantless search of his prison cell. The search was conducted at the behest of the police, who were seeking evidence of an uncharged crime, and did not serve any purpose related to prison security. George Willis, who is serving a life sentence, contends that the search violated his Fourth Amendment right…