Lawyers for Robert Kaluza, 62, of Henderson, Nevada and Donald Vidrine, 65, of Lafayette, Louisiana, petitioned US district judge Stanwood Duval in June to dismiss 23 criminal counts against both of them.
BP’s officials in charge of the Deepwater Horizon were accused by the US Department of Justice of misinterpreting key tests and other management failures leading up to the Macondo blowout that killed 11 workers and spilled nearly 5 million barrels of crude.
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