Man convicted of 17th drunken driving offense
GREEN BAY (AP 4-9-02)

A 46 year-old man received his 17th drunken driving conviction Monday after pleading no contest in Brown County Circuit Court.

Arthur Hill agreed to make the plea in lieu of a trial that was scheduled to begin Monday.

Hill has 16 convictions since 1977 for operation while intoxicated, according to court records. Because Wisconsin law prevents prosecutors from using convictions before 1988, he was charged with his 11th offense, a
felony.

Hill hasn't had a drivers license in more than a decade.

As part of the plea, prosecutors agreed to drop a misdemeanor count of operating while intoxicated causing injury and operating after revocation.

Hill was swerving Nov. 15 on Wisconsin 54 in Hobart before striking a guardrail and sideswiping an oncoming car, police said.