re: #185 Oblongatis

The original trail is where evidence is submitted and judged. Appeals are only interested in matters of law. You can challenge a legal ruling of the trail judge on appeal not on the facts the trail weighed.
The MAGAts will scream how unfair it is that Trump can’t get redo because the defense came up (made up?) with some new piece of evidence. As is typical they don’t know how anything works so someone can rile them up with bullshit.

The Appellate Division can review matters of fact and reverse only if the finding was clearly erroneous. That’s what Trump is hoping for, but there’s no evidence that Engoron’s findings are erroneous, let alone clearly erroneous. What we’ve seen is decades of misinformation and lying about valuations to both creditors and investors, to say nothing of tax authorities. The claims re: Trump Tower and the penthouse are a prime example of this - and everyone up and down the Trump Org org chart was knowingly lying about the valuations and size of the penthouse, inflating values.

The App Div will find for the OAG, and Trump will be on the hook (until he tries to appeal this all the way to the Court of Appeals).