Since the undercover officer's ability to identify defendant was at issue, the court properly exercised its discretion in permitting the officer to testify about his unspecified "conversation" with defendant on a prior occasion. Defendant failed to preserve his present argument that the court should have declared a mistrial when the officer revealed, on cross-examination, that the prior incident was a drug transaction, and the record does not support defendant's assertion...
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