On Friday, the sentencing of President-Elect Donald Trump saw one of the most impassioned defense arguments given at such a ...

Joyce Vance discusses Merchan citing a recent report from Chief Justice John Roberts while announcing Trump's sentencing date.

New York Justice Juan Merchan’s decision to let Donald Trump go unpunished for his 34 felony-count convictions was the right ...

Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan is abusing his power one last ... Merchan on Monday refused to postpone sentencing; a higher state judge has declined to overrule him; Trump’s ...

Justice Juan M. Merchan, an even-keeled jurist, has been in the president-elect’s cross-hairs for nearly two years.

Trump was found guilty in May of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records over allegations that he instructed his then-lawyer, Michael Cohen, to pay adult film star Stormy Daniels $130,000 to ...

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Long Islander Juan ... Court in the Bronx. In 2009, Gov. David Paterson appointed Merchan to the Court of Claims. That same year, he was appointed as an acting justice in Manhattan's Supreme ...

Judge Juan Merchan understands that jury verdicts matter. And in this case, the verdict matters more than the sentence.

President-elect Donald Trump will enter the White House this month as a felon, but will serve no jail time under a sentence handed down this morning in New York for his criminal conviction in a ...

President-elect Donald Trump filed an emergency petition to the United States Supreme Court Wednesday morning in an effort to block his sentencing in New York v. Trump. Judge Juan Merchan set ...

The former president has separately sued the judge in a state appeals court, claiming that the judge overstepped his jurisdiction when he denied Trump’s presidential “immunity” defense by allowing the ...