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 criminal solicitation in the fourth degree (Penal Law § 100.05). As the People correctly concede, defendant's waiver of the right to appeal is invalid. County Court failed to conduct an adequate colloquy "`to ensure that the waiver of the right to appeal was a knowing and voluntary choice'" (...
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