An appeals court in Louisiana said it granted a new trial for a former BP engineer, Kurt Mix, on grounds of jury exposure to external evidence. Mix was charged with determining the amount of oil leaking from the Macondo well after Deepwater Horizon collapsed in 2010 as a result of a cascading series of failures beneath the rig. He was prosecuted and later convicted of obstruction of justice for deleting text messages and other correspondence related to those calculations. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit said Mix’s defense team charged that a jury in the […]