Eugene Bottcher, 66, is serving 20 years after he struck and killed a 13-year-old bicyclist four years ago.
Earlier this year, the Alaska Court of Appeals asked a Superior Court judge to re-sentence him, citing similar cases where defendants received lesser sentences.
But Judge Douglas Blankenship on Friday kept the sentence the same, saying it's a deterrent to keep others from driving drunk. Blankenship also kept the three years of probation and three years suspended time from the original sentence.
The only change Blankenship made: one condition of probation that would have banned Bottcher from sitting in the front passenger seat of a vehicle.
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