Defendant seeks vacatur of his guilty plea on the ground that his plea allocution was insufficient and in fact negated an essential element of the crime. By failing to move to withdraw his plea or to vacate the judgment of conviction, defendant has failed to preserve his challenge for appellate review (see, People v Lopez,
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