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 criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree (Penal Law § 220.39[1]). As the People correctly concede, defendant's waiver of the right to appeal is invalid inasmuch as the perfunctory inquiry made by County Court was "insufficient to establish that the court engage[d] ... defendant...
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