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

Judge Juan Merchan included a "twist" in a footnote accompanying his decision on the sentencing date for President-elect Donald Trump, according to legal expert Joyce Vance. Merchan's footnote cited ...

Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan is abusing his power one last time in a bid to ensure that Donald Trump is technically a convicted felon when he takes the oath of office Jan. 20.

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 ...

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 ...

Trump was found guilty in May of 34 felonies for authorizing a scheme in 2017 to falsify records in order to cover up ...

Long Islander Juan M. Merchan will go down in history as the ... That same year, he was appointed as an acting justice in Manhattan's Supreme Court, the felony-level trial court.

Acting Justice Juan Merchan will finally decide whether “to be or not to be” the judge to sentence Trump to jail. (Spoiler alert: He appears set to avoid a jail sentence and likely reversal.) ...

open image in gallery New York Justice Juan Merchan presided over Trump’s case and faced an onslaught of attacks from Trump and his allies (AP) In ordering Trump to appear — either in-person ...

Only one of the four criminal cases against Trump ever reached the trial stage, the Manhattan hush-money case. It culminated on Friday, when New York Justice Juan Merchan sentenced Donald Trump to an ...

Donald Trump, the first convicted felon to be elected president, was sentenced today in his New York hush-money case, pleasing virtually no one.

Donald Trump, felon, will remain exactly that. A felon. He also will remain a free man, ready to take the oath of office Jan. 20 to be the duly elected ...