Once an indictment has been filed, the AV has no control over the case unless the DA agrees to drop it.
In any event, this case is not going away even if the charges are dismissed. Discovery in a civil case against the da, Crystal, the City of Durham and Duke University (including personal claims against some of the professors calling the players rapists), along with all the commentators who have called these guys rapists will be at least as brutal as that in a criminal trial. There are some very deep pockets to go after.
and I hope the families go for the jugular...I'm sure they'd settle for $1 if they could clear their names.
And there are some very deep pockets to go after them. I'd love to see that English prof at Duke have to spend three years salary defending himself in court. "But I have tenure and that means the academic freedom to say anything I want". Er...no...welcome to the real world where words have consequences.