FAIRBANKS -- Despite winning an appeal earlier this year for a new sentence, a convicted drunken driver has been sentenced to the exact same prison term.

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.