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QUESTIONS PRESENTED For purposes of venue for a criminal prosecution, if it were a crime to make false statement to another in connection with another offense (and the other offense is being a felon in possession of a cookie), would the scene of the crime for lying to mom about why a cookie was missing from the cookie jar be where mom was lied to even if the felon at some point took the cookie somewhere else — because being a felon in possession is not critical nor conduct with respect to lying to mom? Also, was the Eighth Circuit panel’s refusal to consider an argument raised in Mr. Mink’s Reply brief a misapplication of the waiver rule and contrary to how the rule is otherwise universally applied? i