The ONLY safe path for Nifong is to keep charging forward, and let Crystal conclude she has to bail out. There is no way she is going to sit for cross-examination in this criminal matter. She will quit the case before trial.
There is a part of me that wants to actually see her on the witness stand; however, three innocent young men's lives are at stake, so I hope it never gets to that point.
Not being disagreeable, but at this point I don't think that Nifong has a safe path. He is effectively destroying his credibility with the group that is most important to his future, the legal profession. What defense attorney will ever believe him again when he says he has turned over the "entire file"? He now has to take a path that gives him some hope of restoring his credibility.
Yeah, she probably will bail out. Most false accusers do. But he still has to find a way to overcome the blight on his reputation. What better way then to blame everything on the DPD and then investigate them.