NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal judge in an order Friday agreed to postpone the trial of a former BP engineer charged with deleting text messages about the company’s response to its 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The judge also had some stern words for attorneys on both sides.

Kurt Mix’s trial was scheduled to start June 10, but U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval Jr. agreed to reschedule it for Dec. 2 to give Mix’s attorneys more time to review millions of government documents related to the case.