President-elect Donald Trump was sentenced Friday in Manhattan on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to ...

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

Justice Juan M. Merchan gave Donald J. Trump a symbolic punishment. The judge said that leniency was due the office of the ...

Juan Merchan is the first judge to preside over the criminal case and conviction of a former U.S. president and to hold him in criminal contempt of court.

With Trump 10 days from inauguration, Judge Juan M. Merchan has indicated he plans a no-penalty sentence called an ...

Merchan could have sentenced the 78-year-old Republican to up to four years in prison. Instead, he chose a sentence that sidestepped thorny constitutional issues by effectively ending the case but ...

President-elect Donald Trump was sentenced Friday to no punishment in his historic hush money case, a judgment that lets him ...

President-elect Donald Trump spoke for six minutes. The judge talked for seven. In the end, the first criminal court ...

Judge Juan Merchan spent seven minutes during Friday’s sentencing hearing bemoaning that President-elect Donald Trump’s ...

President-elect Trump refused to take accountability for his hush money criminal conviction at his sentencing Friday, telling ...

Blakeman recognized that he’ll need the state for more than infrastructure. Blakeman, for instance, emphasized his plans to ...