It is hereby ordered that the judgment so appealed from is unanimously affirmed.
Memorandum: Defendant appeals from a judgment convicting him, upon his plea of guilty, of rape in the first degree (Penal Law § 130.35 [4]). Preliminarily, we note that defendant's waiver of the right to appeal is not valid. The perfunctory inquiry made by County Court during the plea colloquy was not sufficient "to ensure that the waiver of the right to appeal was a knowing and...
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