NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal prosecutor vowed Tuesday to prove that a former BP drilling engineer was trying to destroy evidence when he deleted hundreds of text messages from a cellphone after the company's 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. But a lawyer for Kurt Mix told jurors that he deleted the texts from his iPhone "for the most innocent of reasons" and didn't hide anything from a grand jury probing the nation's worst offshore oil spill, which spewed millions of gallons of crude. "Kurt never dreamed he would be here in a courtroom, his liberty in your hands," defense attorney Joan McPhee told jurors in her opening statement at Mix's trial. Mix, 52, of Katy, Texas, is charged with...
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