Officer Donti Rosciti, of the North Providence Police Department, also testified about his investigation of the robberies.5 On cross-examination by defendant, Officer Rosciti confirmed that Maria had acknowledged that she stole one of the victim's earrings. Later, during redirect examination, the prosecutor further inquired about Maria Rojas's statement to police. This exchange followed:
"[THE STATE]: Did [Maria Rojas] say anything about the defendant?
"[OFFICER ROSCITI]: Yes.
"[DEFENSE COUNSEL]: Objection -- well, not to that. Withdrawn, Your Honor.
"THE COURT: All right.
"[OFFICER ROSCITI]: She said he had a gun.
"[DEFENSE COUNSEL]: Objection.
"[THE STATE]: He put it in for ID.
"THE COURT: Well, first of all, the question is did he have a knife?
"[THE STATE]: No, I asked what did she say.
"THE COURT: What did who say?
"[THE STATE]: Maria, in the statement.
"THE COURT: All right. I'll allow that. Go ahead.
"[OFFICER ROSCITI]: She said Thomas Sanchez had the gun.
"[THE STATE]: Did she refer to him in that statement by any other name other than Thomas Sanchez?
"[DEFENSE COUNSEL]: Objection, same objection, Your Honor.
"[OFFICER ROSCITI]: Bebe."
On May 27, 2016, a jury found defendant guilty of two counts of first degree robbery and one count of conspiracy to commit robbery. The trial justice sentenced defendant on the robbery counts to two concurrent thirty year terms of incarceration, with twenty years to serve and the balance suspended, with probation, and, on the conspiracy count, to ten years of imprisonment, the entirety of which was suspended, with probation. Judgment was entered on September 6, 2016, and defendant filed a notice of appeal on October 21, 2016.6 The *121defendant argues before this Court that the introduction of Maria Rojas's out-of-court statement during Officer Rosciti's testimony, in view of Rojas's failure to appear as a witness at trial, violated his right to confront the witnesses against him afforded by the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution and article 1, section 10 of the Rhode Island Constitution.
II
Discussion
The sole issue to be determined by this Court is whether or not defendant's Sixth Amendment confrontation rights were violated. Before we reach the merits of that argument, however, we must first determine whether or not it has been preserved for our consideration.
A
The Objection
We repeatedly have "made it abundantly clear that 'a litigant cannot raise an objection or advance a new theory on appeal if it was not raised before the trial court.' " Atryzek v. State , 197 A.3d 334, 337 (R.I. 2018) (quoting State v. Bido , 941 A.2d 822, 829 (R.I. 2008) ); see State v. Donato , 592 A.2d 140, 141 (R.I. 1991) ; State v. Byrnes , 433 A.2d 658, 670-71 (R.I. 1981). Moreover, "this Court will not review issues that were not presented to the trial court 'in such a posture as to alert the trial justice to the question being raised.' " State v. Figuereo , 31 A.3d 1283, 1289 (R.I. 2011) (quoting Pollard v. Acer Group , 870 A.2d 429, 433 (R.I. 2005) ). To that end, with the exception of situations where "the reason for the objection is clear from the context in which it was made[,]" State v. Offley , 131 A.3d 663, 670 (R.I. 2016), in the typical case "a general objection is not sufficient to preserve an issue for appellate review; rather, assignments of error must be set forth with sufficient particularity to call the trial justice's attention to the basis of the objection." State v. Moten , 64 A.3d 1232, 1238 (R.I. 2013) (emphasis in original) (quoting Union Station Associates v. Rossi , 862 A.2d 185, 192 (R.I. 2004) ).
The defendant does not dispute that he did not explicitly state the grounds for objecting to the introduction of Maria Rojas's out-of-court statement. Instead, he argues that, because Rojas's statement was repeated by Officer Rosciti, the reasons underpinning his bald objection should have easily alerted the trial justice that he was raising a Confrontation Clause issue. To support that argument, defendant directs us to our holding in Offley , in which we recognized that a party's failure to explain the specific grounds for his objection may not necessarily be fatal if "the reason for the objection is clear from the context in which it was made." Offley , 131 A.3d at 670.
In Offley , the defendant argued on appeal that the admission of a witness's prior testimony was error because a proper foundation had not been laid. Offley , 131 A.3d at 670. However, despite the fact that he repeatedly objected to the admission of the prior testimony at trial, the defendant never once stated the basis for his objections in that proceeding. Id. at 668-69. Although we ultimately affirmed the conviction *122in Offley , we nevertheless concluded that the argument had been preserved because the context of the objections was sufficient to "alert the trial justice" as to the grounds for the objections. Id. at 670. We arrived at this conclusion after noting that the objections were made as the prosecutor was reading the prior testimony into evidence and, importantly, that the defendant was "rebuffed" by the trial justice multiple times when he attempted to explain the rationale for his objections, both at counsel table and at sidebar. Id.
In contrast, an examination of the transcript in the case before us at this time reveals that defendant was not "rebuffed," and that, when the trial justice attempted to clarify the nature of the question, a discussion ensued but defendant did not provide any reason for his objection. What is more, there is no indication that the trial justice understood that defendant's objection sounded in the Confrontation Clause.
Importantly, we previously have considered and rejected an argument that was strikingly similar to defendant's argument in this case. See Moten , 64 A.3d at 1239. In Moten , the defendant alleged on appeal that the introduction of a nontestifying declarant's statement violated the defendant's right to confront the witnesses against him. Id. at 1237-38. As is the case here, however, when the defendant in that case made his objection at trial, he failed to state the basis for the objection. Id. at 1239. The defendant in Moten sought to circumvent this infirmity by arguing that "it was clear that counsel was objecting to his inability to confront the [nontestifying witness]" because of the declarant's absence at trial. Id. In our view, however, we deemed it "equally-if not more-plausible that the prosecutor and the trial justice understood defendant's objection to be on hearsay grounds[,]" and we thus concluded that the defendant's naked objection failed to call the trial justice's attention to the basis of the defendant's objection. Id. at 1239, 1240.
Just as the defendant did in Moten , defendant in this case objected at the moment a witness was testifying about an out-of-court statement by a nontestifying witness. See Moten , 64 A.3d at 1239. It was therefore "equally-if not more-plausible that the prosecutor and the trial justice understood defendant's objection to be on hearsay grounds." Id. As we noted in Moten , "[a] hearsay objection is not equivalent to an objection based on the constitutional right to confront a witness."7 Id. at 1239 n.7. At the same time, we recognize that the objection was repeated and that the principles set forth in Crawford v. Washington , 541 U.S. 36, 124 S.Ct. 1354, 158 L.Ed.2d 177 (2004), are no longer new law.8 We will, therefore, assume without deciding that a Confrontation Clause objection was properly articulated.
B
Harmless Error
There is no doubt that even a properly articulated objection premised on *123the Sixth Amendment must be viewed through the prism of the effect the evidence may have had upon the trial. This is so because "[v]iolations of the Confrontation Clause are subject to harmless-error analysis[,]" and "[t]he inquiry is whether, assuming the defense had been afforded the opportunity to cross-examine the unavailable witness and that 'the damaging potential of the cross-examination were fully realized, a reviewing court might nonetheless say that the error was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt.' " State v. Roscoe , 198 A.3d 1232, 1245 (R.I. 2019) (quoting State v. Albanese , 970 A.2d 1215, 1222 (R.I. 2009) ). The record before us reveals that the evidence placing a gun in defendant's hand during the robberies was both abundant and compelling. Three witnesses-Leonardo, Melendez, and Laboy-testified at trial that it was defendant who wielded a firearm during the robberies. Testimony at trial revealed that each victim independently identified defendant in court and from a photographic array following the incident, and each asserted that the individual whom they identified as defendant had used a firearm during the robbery. Laboy also testified that defendant had used a gun to effectuate the robberies.
In contrast, the testimony of defendant's cohorts with respect to the events of that fateful night was inconsistent to a startling degree. At trial, Diaz and Xavier testified that defendant had been uninvolved in the robberies. That story starkly conflicted with the facts that those two men admitted that they had sworn to during their own plea colloquies, however, when each had previously admitted to conspiring with defendant to commit robbery. Indeed, Xavier agreed at trial that he had claimed during his plea colloquy that defendant had used a firearm when he robbed and struck Leonardo. Moreover, Diaz and Xavier could not agree as to where defendant was during the robberies; Diaz claimed that defendant spent the encounter outside the apartment, while Xavier claimed that defendant had been present during the robberies, but that he had not participated in them. Furthermore, Diaz and Xavier each claimed sole responsibility for the robberies-an obvious impossibility that shredded the credibility of both of them-and Diaz's description of the weapon that he claimed to have used varied among a BB gun, a .22 caliber handgun with an obliterated serial number, and "a high-power BB gun" bearing a legible serial number.
Importantly, defendant's own testimony matched neither of the stories provided by Diaz or Xavier. What is more, when defendant was apprehended after fleeing from police, he was found in possession of roughly the same amount of cash that one of the victims claimed had been stolen from his person, one of the victim's phones, and some of the victims' jewelry. Further, a BB gun and magazine were found near the seat in the getaway car that had been occupied by defendant.
It is clear to us that the state's case against the defendant neither rose nor fell with Rojas's statement that the defendant employed a weapon during the robberies. The statement attributed to Rojas by the testifying police officer is relatively unimportant in light of the testimony of the three witnesses who claimed that the defendant had used the gun, and it was wholly cumulative of the overwhelming evidence of the defendant's guilt that was presented by the state. See State v. Doctor , 644 A.2d 1287, 1290 (R.I. 1994) (laying out factors to consider in a harmless error analysis: "the importance of the witness' testimony in the prosecution's case, whether the testimony was cumulative, the presence or absence of evidence corroborating or contradicting the testimony of the witness on material points, the extent of *124cross-examination otherwise permitted, and, of course, the overall strength of the prosecution's case") (quoting Delaware v. Van Arsdall , 475 U.S. 673, 684, 106 S.Ct. 1431, 89 L.Ed.2d 674 (1986) ). Therefore, we can reach no conclusion other than, had the defendant "been afforded the opportunity to cross-examine" Maria Rojas, and had "the damaging potential of the cross-examination [been] fully realized," the remaining evidence was sufficiently compelling to support the jury's finding of guilty and, therefore, the admission of Rojas's out-of-court declaration was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt. Roscoe , 198 A.3d at 1245 (quoting Albanese , 970 A.2d at 1222 ).
III
Conclusion
For the reasons stated in this opinion, we affirm the judgment of conviction. The papers in this case are remanded to the Superior Court.