In May 1999, my mother-in-law made a false statement to the police saying that I assaulted her. The next day, the police came to my office and arrested me. I spent the next year appearing in court in an effort to have the case dropped since I did not assault my mother-in-law. The case was finally dropped on May 30th due to insufficient evidence. Since then, I've I tried to forget about it, but the whole ordeal continues to haunt me. Now it is May 2001 and I want to know if it is too late to file a charge against my mother-in-law. Someone told me that by lieing to the police to have me arrested, she committed 'malicious persecution' and perjury. IS there such a violation called 'malicious persecution'? Do I have a case against her?