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 murder in the first degree (Penal Law § 125.27[1][a][vii]; [b]). As the People correctly concede, defendant's purported waiver of the right to appeal is invalid. During the plea colloquy, County Court "`conflated the right to appeal with those rights automatically forfeited by the guilty plea...
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