1. Whether the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court misinterpreted federal law in not applying a new rule narrowing criminal liability to cases on direct appeal, and thus decided an important federal question of due process in a way that conflicts with the decisions of this Court?

2. Whether the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, in not applying a new rule narrowing criminal liability to cases on direct appeal, has decided an important federal question of due process in a way that conflicts with another state supreme court and with a United States court of appeals?

Whether the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court misinterpreted federal law in not applying a new rule narrowing criminal liability to cases on direct appeal, and thus decided an important federal question of due process in a way that conflicts with the decisions of this Court?