It is hereby ordered that the judgment so appealed from is unanimously affirmed.
Memorandum: Defendant appeals from a judgment convicting her upon her plea of guilty of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the fourth degree (Penal Law § 220.09 [1]). We agree with defendant that her waiver of the right to appeal is invalid inasmuch as the record fails to "establish that [she] understood that the right to appeal is separate and distinct from those rights...
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