People v. Cook

On appeal, the defendant challenges the validity of his plea on the ground that the Supreme Court failed to inform him that his sentence would include a period of postrelease supervision. Review of the record reveals that the court did inform the defendant of this condition at sentencing, but it failed to so inform *778him at the plea allocution. Under such circumstances, the defendant did not waive his challenge to the sufficiency to the plea allocution on direct appeal, despite the fact that he did not make a formal post-allocution motion to withdraw the plea or a motion to vacate the judgment…