MAN GETS 11 YEARS IN OVERDOSE CASE

MISSOULA - A man charged in the fatal overdose of a Missoula woman
was sentenced Monday to 11 years in prison, the U.S. attorney's
office said in a news release.

Eric Jacobson, 25, of Missoula pleaded guilty in January to
distribution of a controlled substance causing death.

Jessica Lawhorn died in March 2005 after she and a friend split one
pill of the painkiller Oxycontin that they had bought from Jacobson.

Adrienne Lecoure told investigators that she and Lawhorn, 19, drank a
bottle of wine earlier that evening. After talking, the two women
fell asleep, and Lecoure found Lawhorn unconscious the next day,
court records said. Lawhorn was later pronounced dead in a hospital.
In addition to prison time, U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy
sentenced Jacobson to 10 years on supervised release.