That's the old "once you lie", you can't retract it. She might as well bring all the newspapers with their pictures to any new ID session. It ain't gonna happen.
Just imagine where this case would be if :
There were no ATM or taxi or dorm records;
the kids didn't have the cash to make the $400,000 bond;
the kids' families didn't have the cash to hire investigators to thoroughly research the AV
the kids had to rely on inexpensive lawyers or public defenders;
(the DA would have sent them away for years, and been a great hero to the community).
And that, is scary. . . and what makes Durham scary, until this is fixed . . .