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

President-elect Donald Trump's legal team is mounting a full-court press to prevent him from being sentenced later this week. The post Trump Threatens Judge Merchan With Legal Action in Last-Ditch ...

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

Long Islander Juan M. Merchan will go down in history as the judge who sentenced President-elect Donald Trump. Merchan presided over Trump's historic five-week criminal trial that culminated ...

The sentence pronounced Friday by Manhattan Judge Juan M. Merchan cements Trump’s conviction while freeing him to return to the White House unencumbered by the threat of jail.

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

Judge Juan M. Merchan's sentence of “unconditional discharge" means no jail time or punishment for President-elect Trump other than having the conviction on his record.

On Friday, New York Judge Juan M. Merchan upheld Trump’s 34 felony convictions for falsifying business records. Merchan set sentencing for Friday, Jan. 10, and indicated that he would likely ...

New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan in March ... slow-walking and bias demonstrated by U.S. District Judge Aileen M. Cannon) is to damn with faint praise. As former federal prosecutor ...

He reiterated that he would appeal his conviction. Manhattan Judge Juan M. Merchan could have sentenced the 78-year-old to up to four years in prison. Instead, Merchan chose a sentence that ...

Justice Juan M. Merchan gave Donald J. Trump a symbolic punishment. The judge said that leniency was due the office of the president, not the man who will soon hold the title. By Ben Protess Jonah E.