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• IN RE ZACHARIAH E.
  
  Cynthia S. and Roger S., the maternal grandparents of Zachariah E., appeal from orders continuing jurisdiction in this dependency case. Appellants previously appealed from orders denying their application for de facto parent status in this case; the present appeal was filed before our decision on the earlier appeal. After we affirmed the orders in the first appeal, appellants filed their reply brief conceding that the issues in the present appeal are no longer viable. We dismiss the appeal.


• STATE v. JACKSON
  
  Carlos Jackson appeals from an order directing him to register under the Kansas Offender Registration Act following his plea of guilty to three counts of aggravated battery.
  
  
  
  Jackson was born on August 17, 1981. On February 1, 1999, he was sentenced as an extended jurisdiction juvenile offender for first degree murder and attempted aggravated robbery in case No. 98JV765. The court sentenced him to a term of life and a concurrent term of 32 months in prison. The court extended jurisdiction over him until his 23rd birthday in 2004.
  
  
  
  On February 10, 2008, Jackson visited a club in Lawrence and became involved in a fight. He went to his car and retrieved a gun, which he fired several times in the vicinity of a crowd. Several people were injured as a result. The State charged him with three counts of aggravated battery in violation of K.S.A. 21-3414(a)(2)(A).