Defendant's claim that his allocution showed that he did not understand the nature of the depraved indifference murder charge to which he was pleading, and that his plea should not have been accepted, is unpreserved for appellate review as a matter of law since he neither moved to withdraw the plea before sentencing nor to vacate the judgment of conviction on that ground (People v Claudio,
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