People v. McNab

Although defendant requested disclosure of an undercover officer’s name, he did not sufficiently alert the court to his claim that permitting the undercover officer to testify under his shield number violated his right of confrontation, and the court did not “expressly decide[ ]” the issue “in re[s]ponse to a protest by a party” (CPL 470.05 [2]; see People v Colon, 46 AD3d 260, 263 [2007]). Accordingly, defendant did not preserve his Confrontation Clause claim, and we decline to review it in the interest of justice.

As an alternative holding, we find no Confrontation Clause violation (see…