This was a joint venture trial, and decisions about what clinical trials to run and how to run them is made by a joint team of clinical researchers, not by individual companies and certainly not by individual CEOs.
Mr. Pride chose to shoot, firing a single shot that killed Officer Peter Figoski in the early morning hours of Dec. 12, 2011, prosecutor Kenneth Taub told a jury on the first day of a joint murder trial against Mr. Pride and Michael Valez, the alleged getaway driver that night.