confrontation and compulsory process clauses, see Rock v. Arkansas, 483 U.S. 44, 52, 107 S.Ct. 2704, 97 L.Ed.2d 37 (1977), and the Fifth Amendment’s guarantee of due process and privilege against self-incrimination, see id. at 52-53, 107 S.Ct. 2704. The right to present a defense, however, is not without limits. At a minimum, a defendant is limited to presenting relevant evidence, Ramone, 218 F.3d at 1237, which is evidence having “any tendency to make the existence of any fact that is of consequence to the determination of the action more probable or less probable than it would be without the evidence,” Fed.R.Evid. 401. To determine what evidence is relevant, we first turn to the elements of the offense. See, e.g., United States v. Casares-Cardenas, 14 F.3d 1283, 1287 (8th Cir.) (<HOLDING>). The statute Mr. Mar-key is charged with
holding that a defendant more likely committed multiple acts if the defendants conduct in committing the lesser crime caused the victim to suffer an additional risk of harm beyond that inherent in the ultimate crime holding that counsel did not admit the defendant was guilty of a crime when counsel noted that if the evidence established the commission of any crime that crime was voluntary manslaughter not murder holding that any error in the exclusion of evidence is cured by the subsequent admission of the evidence holding relevance of evidence is established by any showing however slight that the evidence makes it more or less likely that the defendant committed the crime in question holding the crime of conspiracy is committed or not before the substantive crime begins