Order                                                                                       Michigan Supreme Court
                                                                                                  Lansing, Michigan

  May 2, 2016                                                                                         Robert P. Young, Jr.,
                                                                                                                Chief Justice

                                                                                                      Stephen J. Markman
                                                                                                           Brian K. Zahra
  149791                                                                                           Bridget M. McCormack
                                                                                                         David F. Viviano
                                                                                                     Richard H. Bernstein
                                                                                                           Joan L. Larsen,
  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN,                                                                                   Justices
            Plaintiff-Appellee,
  v                                                                SC: 149791
                                                                   COA: 319527
                                                                   Saginaw CC: 99-017628-FC
  JAMES WASHINGTON, III,
           Defendant-Appellant.

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         By order of April 28, 2015, the application for leave to appeal the June 3, 2014
  order of the Court of Appeals was held in abeyance pending the decision in Montgomery
  v Louisiana, cert gtd 575 US ___; 135 S Ct 1546; 191 L Ed 2d 635 (2015). On order of
  the Court, the case having been decided on January 25, 2016, Montgomery v Louisiana,
  577 US ___; 136 S Ct 718; 193 L Ed 2d 599 (2016), the application is again considered
  and, pursuant to MCR 7.305(H)(1), in lieu of granting leave to appeal, we VACATE the
  sentence of the Saginaw Circuit Court on the defendant’s first-degree murder conviction,
  and we REMAND this case to the trial court for resentencing on that conviction pursuant
  to MCL 769.25 and MCL 769.25a. See Montgomery v Louisiana, supra; Miller v
  Alabama, 567 US ___; 132 S Ct 2455; 183 L Ed 2d 407 (2012).

        We do not retain jurisdiction.




                          I, Larry S. Royster, Clerk of the Michigan Supreme Court, certify that the
                    foregoing is a true and complete copy of the order entered at the direction of the Court.
                          May 2, 2016
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                                                                              Clerk
