Well, yes. If you want to call anger and enmity “panic.”
Appeal(s) are coming and NYS will never see that $300M+ penalty. Get the appeal in a venue outside of NYS on grounds of prosecution persecution and judicial bias and misconduct.
But New York can collect the penalty while the appeal is pending, unless Trump posts a bond for 120% of the verdict.
Get the appeal in a venue outside of NYS on grounds of prosecution persecution and judicial bias and misconduct.
There is no mechanism, under state or federal law, to move the venue of an appeal.
The case is a NYS case. There is nowhere outside of NYS for it to be held. No, they won’t see that money, but if I understand correctly, to appeal in NYS Trump has to put up a bond for the full amount.