Pathetic

The Smoking Gun provides the letter Mike Nifong sent to the North Carolina bar on surrendering his law license. He claimed that he never had his law license framed because his dog chewed on it.

In a pathetic end to the Mike Nifong saga, the disgraced North Carolina prosecutor who handled the Duke rape investigation has turned in his law license, noting that he never framed or displayed the document because it had been damaged "by a puppy in her chewing stage." Additionally, in an August 7 letter to the North Carolina State Bar, Nifong noted that the law license also contained a misspelling of his middle name (which is Byron).

Can you get more pathetic than this?

Nifong accused three Duke lacrosse students of engaging in rape and sexual assualt on a woman despite no DNA evidence, a lack of corroborating evidence, witness statements that contradicted the accuser's statements, and an accuser whose own statements were contradictory and who was not fully deposed by Nifong's office until months later.

Nifong also made inflammatory statements and professed a slam dunk case against the trio, Seligmann, Finnerty, and Evans, despite a paucity of actual evidence. It was those statements that got him in trouble with the State Bar, and for which he was forced to resign and have his law license revoked.