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Mike Nifong, the disgraced prosecutor who spent the final year of his legal career attempting to imprison three innocent Duke lacrosse players, has finally, officially, given up his law license.

But The Smoking Gun has a copy of the letter Nifong sent to the North Carolina State Bar when he mailed back his license, and he goes out with a parting shot. Nifong finished his letter by saying that a request from F. Lane Williamson, the chair of the disciplinary panel that disbarred Nifong, was evidence of "the fundamental unfairness with which this entire procedure has been conducted."

So, to recap: Mike Nifong used his job as a prosecutor to spend a year trying to ruin the lives of three innocent people. And in the end, he's upset that he was treated unfairly. I wonder if those three innocent men feel any sympathy for him. I don't.

How did this story ever fly under the radar?

The Contra Costa Times is reporting that NFL-bound Cal tailback Marshawn Lynch will not have domestic violence charges filed against him. He had been accused by an acquaintance of "grabbing and pushing" her but she later increased the allegation to greater physical harm.

In the initial police report, there was only a mention of Lynch "grabbing and pushing" the woman. But the woman added other details of the confrontation in later interviews and documents.

One of those documents was a petition for a restraining order in which the woman said Lynch, "choke me. slap me then slap himself. pick me up and though(sic) me in the car laid on top of me with his hands over my mouth."

Other reasons cited by Hunter for not charging the case included no visible injuries to the woman, no pictures of any injuries and a statement from someone who knows both Lynch and the woman and was present at the so-called confrontation that "nothing happened" between them.

Sounds a little like the Duke rape case, no? Except without the insane, media-mad, politicking district attorney (Mike Nifong) who is now facing ethics charges. In other words reasonable justice.

The insanity continues if you read the story, lots of juice about the plaintiff and her mother seizing upon Lynch's future wealth and their rapidly dissolving relationship with their attorney.

Anyway, score one for Alameda County Senior Deputy District Attorney Kim Hunter.

The decision was made by Senior Deputy District Attorney Kim Hunter, an expert in domestic violence cases.

Hunter said one of the key reasons for the decision not to prosecute was that the woman making the complaint gave conflicting statements in the police report and to officers doing the follow-up investigation.

"The victim's story has some grave inconsistencies," Hunter said.

Likely shakedown averted. Now let's hope this is the last we hear of Lynch and alleged situations of abuse towards women.