Mike Nifong has mailed his license in.

The former Durham district attorney had said that he thought the State Bar treated him fairly and would not appeal the verdict towards the end of his hearing in June.

But he attached a note decrying "the fundamental unfairness" of his treatment when he sent in his law license.

A disciplinary panel found Nifong guilty of 11 out of 20 violations of ethics rules for his handling of the Duke lacrosse case.

In a letter dated Aug. 7, Nifong wrote that he was upset that the Lane Williamson, head of the disciplinary panel, amended the order to include the 11th count after a Duke law professor pointed out it was missing.

"Mr. Williamson's e-mail assertion that the addition of a new conclusion of law based on the request of a Duke University law professor is merely a 'clerical correction' is preposterous beyond belief, and is further evidence of the fundamental unfairness with which this entire procedure has been conducted," he wrote. (N&O)