A federal appeals court has ruled that a U.S. citizen imprisoned by immigration officials for nearly three-and-a-half years without access to a lawyer cannot collect damages ordered by a lower court. Davino Watson of New York was 23 years old when ICE agents took him into custody in May of 2008, after he completed a prison sentence for a drug charge. Watson insisted for over three years that he was in fact a U.S. citizen, but failed to win release from ICE until November 2011, when he was set free in rural Alabama without explanation. Watson sued and won $82,500 in damages from a district court. This week, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the payout, ruling a statute of limitations had expired while Watson was in ICE custody without access to a lawyer.