ORDER

AND NOW, this 8TH day of November, 2006, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is hereby GRANTED, limited to the following:

Does it violate the United States and/or Pennsylvania Constitutions when a judge, not a jury, finds by a preponderance of the evidence, not beyond a reasonable doubt, that the defendant has been convicted of two or more “crimes of violence arising from separate criminal transactions” pursuant to 42 Pa.C.S. § 9714?