I. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit's reliance on an announced alternate variant sentence to assume as harmless all Guideline errors is in conflict with the jurisprudence of this Court.

II. Whether the Constitution requires notice or indictment and either an admission of or a jury's determination that a defendant's prior convictions were committed on different occasions as necessary to impose an enhanced sentence under the Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)(1).

Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit's reliance on an announced alternate variant sentence to assume as harmless all Guideline errors is in conflict with the jurisprudence of this Court