Defendant made a valid waiver of his right to appeal. The court's oral colloquy, which sufficiently distinguished the right to appeal from the trial rights automatically forfeited by a guilty plea, taken together with a detailed written waiver that fully explained the appellate rights defendant was giving up, established that the waiver was knowing, intelligent, and voluntary (see People v Thomas, 34 N.Y.3d 545, 560 [2019], cert denied 589 US ___, 140 S.Ct....
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