Attorneys for a former BP engineer asked a New Orleans federal judge to grant him a new trial Thursday or acquit him on obstruction-of-justice charges for deleting a string of text messages in an alleged effort to hamper the government’s criminal investigation of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster.
Kurt Mix was brought in by BP to study how much oil was gushing into the Gulf of Mexico after its Macondo well erupted off the coast of Louisiana on April 20, 2010.