This is a "rare case" where the preservation requirement for challenges to guilty pleas does not apply because "defendant's factual recitation negate[d] an essential element of the crime pleaded to" and the court "accept[ed] the plea without making further inquiry to ensure that defendant underst[ood] the nature of the charge and that the plea [was] intelligently entered" (People v Lopez,
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