[BITList] manslaughter

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Frank,

What do you think of this?

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PS  Defence attorneys are seeking motion for a delay to review 63 million pages of records. The cost of this alone will mean the 2 defendants are penniless for the rest of their lives, regardless of whether they are found guilty or not.

Ex-BP engineers facing manslaughter trial in Deepwater Horizon explosion seek delay

PrintBy Juliet Linderman, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune 
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on August 28, 2013 at 4:35 PM, updated August 28, 2013 at 4:42 PM
     
     
     
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A pair of former BP engineers charged with manslaughter in connection with the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico that killed 11 offshore workers asked a federal judge for a nine-month trial delay.

Robert Kaluza and Donald Vidrine, the former rig engineers who have pleaded not guilty to charges that they disregarded safety measures and ignored unusually high pressure readings that should have been a clear indicator of trouble prior to the Macondo well explosion, are slated to go to trial in early January 2014.

Defense attorneys on Wednesday filed a motion seeking the delay to allow them more time to review more than 63 million pages of records in the case.

"The discovery in this case is extraordinary --€” and ongoing," the motion reads. Only a single section of these materials, the attorneys say, "€œwould fill over 6,000 boxes"€ and stretch more than one-and-a-half miles if lined up in a row.

As of Wednesday afternoon, U.S. District Judge Standwood Duval had not ruled on the request for a delay. 


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