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Woman to be sentenced in Wheaton heroin overdose death

A Summit woman found guilty of supplying her friend with a fatal dose of heroin in 2012 in Wheaton will face between six and 30 years in prison when she is sentenced Wednesday morning.

DuPage County Judge Daniel Guerin, who last month denied Jennifer Nere's attorney's request for a new trial, will sentence Nere at 9 a.m.

Nere, 34, was just the second person to be charged with, tried and convicted on drug-induced homicide charges in DuPage County. A jury of 12 also convicted Nere in August of the lesser charge of unlawful delivery of a controlled substance.

Prosecutors say Nere brought heroin to her friend, 32-year-old Wheaton resident Augustina Taylor, during the late-night hours of June 27, 2012, less than a day after Taylor was released from prison, following a family party celebrating her release.

In the early morning hours of June 28, 2012, Taylor was found dead in her mother's washroom. Her death was ruled an overdose from a mixture of cocaine and heroin.

During the trial, prosecutors played a video and read a letter in which Nere admitted to bringing Taylor the "rock and blow" in an old sock she had previously used to wipe blood from one of her track marks.

Inside the sock, prosecutors said, were two tin bindles of heroin, a crack pipe, a syringe and a small bag believed to have contained the crack cocaine.

Prosecutors said Taylor received the drugs around midnight, rushed back up to the apartment, headed straight to the washroom and turned on the shower. Police found her dead a short time later after breaking down the locked door.

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