The verdict is in and the jury says 47-year-old Leamington man Andrew Cowan is guilty.
Cowan has been found guilty of second-degree murder in the death of his friend, 53-year-old Edward Witt.
Cowan was charged with first-degree murder after driving a pick-up truck, with Witt in the passenger seat, at more than 150km/h up a flower bed and through the second floor of a building in Leamington in October 2012.
The defence had argued the incident was part of a suicide pact.
Cowan's lawyer Pat Ducharme says his client was hoping for a different outcome.
"He's disappointed like anybody would expect. He was hopeful that they would accept the fact that he was simply in the process of taking his own life with his best friend, but obviously they did not make that finding. So he's disappointed in that."
Lawyer Pat Ducharme is seen at the murder trial of Leamington man Andrew Cowan (Photo by AM800's Zander Broeckel)
Ducharme adds, this is a unique case.
"It's an argument that's been accepted in only one case in Canada and that was a case in Quebec. There have been a few cases from California that are somewhat similar, but it's relatively new and novel in Canada."
Assistant Crown Attorney Tom Meehan says he's never been involved in a case like this.
"We may go generations without seeing it again. The defence that was offered was suicide pact and in order for that defence to even come up you have to have two people, in a case like this, and one of them has to survive, the person that's alleged to have committed murder. It's very rare."
Assistant Crown Attorney Tom Meehan is seen at the murder trial of Leamington man Andrew Cowan (Photo by AM800's Zander Broeckel)
Meehan says the complexity made coming to a verdict tough for the jury.
"The amount of work and effort and thought that they put into this is absolutely remarkable. You can just tell by the number of questions they had and that reflects how complicated the case was. They put their heads together and concluded what they thought was the appropriate verdict after a lot of hard work."
Ducharme says he's not sure about an appeal at this point.
"I don't want to make any definitive statement on that now. Let's see how the sentencing goes and anybody who gets convicted of an offense where they have presented to the jury a means to finding that he's not guilty, obviously has to consider it."
Meehan says the judge is allowing Cowan to be in the custody of his family until his sentencing.
"It's not unreasonable at all because no prior record to my knowledge and he's behaved very well on bail. So I think she's taking that into account. He'll have time to settle his affairs and deal with a very difficult decision that's been rendered by the jury."
Cowan will be back in court September 8 when the parties will decide on a sentencing date.
Second-degree murder carries a mandatory life sentence.
The jury in the case is recommending Cowan be eligible for parole after 10 years.