Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The defendant's purported waiver of his right to appeal is invalid because the Supreme Court's terse colloquy, which was not supplemented by a written waiver form, mischaracterized the nature of the right to appeal by stating that the defendant's sentence and conviction would be final (see People v McDowell,
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