Ordered that the sentence is affirmed.
The defendant's purported waiver of his right to appeal was invalid (see People v Thomas, 34 N.Y.3d 545, 563-566 [2019]). The Supreme Court mischaracterized the nature of the waiver by stating, inter alia, that the waiver meant that the defendant's "case wouldn't go to a higher Court," and that "no higher Court will review this case in any manner" (see id. at 563-566). Where, as here, "a trial court has utterly...
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