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

In a historic decision, Judge Juan Merchan imposed an unconditional discharge, sparing Trump from prison, fines, or probation but leaving a criminal conviction on his record. The ruling comes just 10 ...

After the trial, on Jan. 3, Merchan slammed Trump's "lack of respect for judges, juries, grand juries and the justice system ...

Long Islander Juan M. Merchan will go down in history as the judge who sentenced President ... Mayor Michael Bloomberg in 2006, serving in Family Court in the Bronx. In 2009, Gov.

Juan Manuel Merchan was born in Bogota, Colombia, on July 29, 1962, during a period of violence involving the government, peasant self-defense groups, communists, students, Catholic radicals and ...

EXCLUSIVE: President-elect Donald Trump slammed Judge Juan Merchan for denying his request ... Bragg—or about court staff, DA staff, or family members of staff. One issue Trump has been barred ...

Read and listen to Donald Trump's entire sentencing hearing following his conviction for falsifying business records in order ...

The New York judge who presided over Donald Trump’s hush money case on Friday sentenced the president-elect to an ...

Judge Juan M. Merchan, who presided over Trump’s trial ... and that Daniels’ story was suppressed to avoid embarrassing Trump’s family, not to influence the electorate.

Donald Trump has been given an unconditional discharge over hush money payments sent to porn star Stormy Daniels, avoiding jail before his inauguration later this month.

It was a brief and relatively calm final encounter of Trump's relationship with Justice Juan Merchan over 21 ... 1994 and was appointed a judge to the New York City Family Court in 2006.