Ordered that the sentence is affirmed.
The defendant's purported waiver of his right to appeal, conducted at the original plea proceeding on September 30, 2015, was invalid. The Supreme Court conflated the right to appeal with the right to be indicted by a grand jury (see People v Lall, 174 A.D.3d 740 [2019]; People v Ortiz,
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