How to delete a search in DA that is being accepted for Legal Hold

Hi

EV 9.0.2

Have some massive searches in DA (e.g. 26 million items) in a case that has "put items on Legal Hold" ticked.

Accepting these results is taking too long.

I want to safely stop accepting the results.

Can I simply uncheck "put items on legal hold" and then delete the case?

Does this mess up anything in SQL? e.g. what happens to the items that have already been accepted? Will legal hold be lifted from them?

Is this a safe method of accomplishing what I'm trying to do?

thanks