Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
The defendant's purported waiver of his right to appeal was invalid because the County Court's colloquy mischaracterized the appellate rights waived as encompassing a bar to filing an appellate brief and the loss of attendant rights to counsel and poor person relief (see People v Howard, 183 A.D.3d 640 [2020]; see also People v Thomas, 34 N.Y.3d 545, 560-564 [2019]), and the People do not rely on any written waiver...
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