Ex-BP engineer convicted over Gulf oil spill wins new trial

Judge says remarks a jury forewoman overheard outside the courtroom influenced Kurt Mix's obstruction-of-justice conviction A new trial was ordered Thursday for a former BP engineer convicted of deleting text messages related to the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.US district judge Stanwood Duval threw out Kurt Mix's obstruction-of-justice conviction, saying that remarks a jury forewoman overheard outside of the courtroom influenced the verdict. Continue reading...