As the People concede, defendant did not expressly waive his right to be prosecuted under an information rather than a criminal complaint. Thus, the legal sufficiency of the accusatory instrument must be evaluated under the standards for an information. While a hearsay defect in an information is nonjurisdictional and is waived by a guilty plea (see People v Casey,
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