Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The court's plea allocution was insufficient to substantiate that the defendant understood that he was waiving the evidentiary suppression issues. The court did not inquire whether the defendant had read the typewritten waiver, whether the signature was in fact the defendant's, and if the defendant was aware of the contents of the waiver prior to executing it (see, People v DeSimone,
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