RALEIGH N.C.
When former Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong mailed in his law license last week, he also included a note bemoaning “the fundamental unfairness” of the North Carolina State Bar’s handling of his ethics case.
Nifong was disbarred for his handling of rape charges against three Duke University men’s lacrosse players. State prosecutors later dismissed the charges and declared the players innocent.
In the Aug. 7 letter obtained by The News & Observer of Raleigh, Nifong complained about a revision the State Bar issued to its written ruling, which had omitted one of the counts included in an oral ruling.
Robert Mosteller, a Duke law professor, noticed the missing count.
“Am I just missing this reference, is there an explanation, or just an apparent oversight?” he wrote in an e-mail to the State Bar.
The count was added in an amended order by F. Lane Williamson, a Charlotte lawyer who headed the disciplinary panel.
