Order                                                                                        Michigan Supreme Court
                                                                                                   Lansing, Michigan

  May 29, 2018                                                                                         Stephen J. Markman,
                                                                                                                 Chief Justice

                                                                                                            Brian K. Zahra
                                                                                                    Bridget M. McCormack
  154158                                                                                                  David F. Viviano
                                                                                                      Richard H. Bernstein
                                                                                                           Kurtis T. Wilder
                                                                                                     Elizabeth T. Clement,
  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN,                                                                                    Justices
            Plaintiff-Appellee,
  v                                                                 SC: 154158
                                                                    COA: 332838
                                                                    Livingston CC: 15-022793-FC
  JOSEPH MICHAEL KUZMA,
            Defendant-Appellant.

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          By order of January 31, 2017, the application for leave to appeal the June 22, 2016
  order of the Court of Appeals was held in abeyance pending the decisions in People v
  Steanhouse (Docket No. 152849) and People v Masroor (Docket Nos. 152946-8). On
  order of the Court, the cases having been decided on July 24, 2017, 500 Mich 453 (2017),
  the application is again considered and, it appearing to this Court that the case of People
  v Ames (Docket No. 156077) is pending on appeal before this Court and that the decision
  in that case may resolve an issue raised in the present application for leave to appeal, we
  ORDER that the application be held in ABEYANCE pending the decision in that case.




                           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 29, 2018
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                                                                               Clerk
