The defendant's purported waiver of his right to appeal was invalid. The plea court's terse oral colloquy regarding the waiver of the right to appeal and the failure to present the waiver as a voluntary choice to be made by the defendant was insufficient to ensure that the waiver was made knowingly, intelligently, and voluntarily (see People v McWhite,
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