Opinion ID: 2456466
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Heading: Sentencing to Highest Grid Term

Text: McDaniel also invokes Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466, 120 S.Ct. 2348, 147 L.Ed.2d 435 (2000), to argue that he could not be sentenced to the highest presumptive term in the grid box applicable to his offense severity of 5 and criminal history of I without aggravating facts first being proved to a jury. We rejected this argument in State v. Johnson, 286 Kan. 824, 849-51, 190 P.3d 207 (2008) (discussing prior Kansas cases, United States Supreme Court decision in Cunningham v. California, 549 U.S. 270, 127 S.Ct. 856, 166 L.Ed.2d 856 [2007]). We decline McDaniel's request to reconsider Johnson here, meaning his 34-month prison sentence also is affirmed. The district court is affirmed. The Court of Appeals is affirmed.