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 Thomas, 34 N.Y.3d 545 [2019]; People v Valentin, 186 A.D.3d 752, 752 [2020]; People v McDowell,
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