Wow. I'm sorry to hear you went through this. You have a few options (none of them all that great). You can determine if it is worth of bringing a false arrest/malicious prosecution claim against the municipality that incarcerated you. However, remember that simply being arrested, and acquitted does not per se make the arrest false, or the prosecution malicious.
If the attorney really screwed up and but for their screw up, you would have won your case (very difficult to prove with jury trials) then you can bring a suit against the attorney for malpractice. However, this is tricky. Very few attorneys are willing to take a suit (especially contingent) against another attorney. And taking on an attorney pro se is an uphill battle that will likely leave you down and out.
It is possible you can bring suits against the people who got you arrested in the first place (if any) although it sounds like the statute of limitations have ran out (3 years in Federal) on most of these claims.
Like I said, I didn't have promising news for you. But hopefully I was of some assistance!
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Evan H. Nass, Esq.Nass & Roper Law, LLP
Answered on Sep 10th, 2012 at 11:54 AM