"BP rig supervisors battle Gulf case" Associated Press, June 01, 2013
NEW ORLEANS — Two BP rig supervisors charged in the deaths of 11 workers in the Deepwater Horizon disaster claim the manslaughter counts in their indictment must be dismissed because they don’t apply to conduct on a foreign-owned vessel operating outside US territory under the flag of the Marshall Islands at the time of the explosion....
Robert Kaluza and Donald Vidrine pleaded not guilty last year to the charges in their 23-count indictment, which accuses them of botching a key safety test and disregarding abnormally high pressure readings that were signs of trouble before the blast of BP’s Macondo well....
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