
Prosecution and defense attorneys giving opening statements Tuesday morning in the trial of two former Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office deputies — accused of illegally killing a man during a tense confrontation on Marrero street — employed the same phrase to different effect when describing Daniel Vallee's death: "Nobody needed to die." Jefferson Parish Assistant District Attorney Rachel Africk told jurors that defendants Johnaton Louis, 37, and Isaac Hughes, 31, had options other than deadly force when the then-deputies responded to a noise complaint during the early morning hours of Feb....