Merchan has been an acting justice in Manhattan's State Supreme Court for 14 years, following a three year stint as a Bronx family court judge. Prior to that he worked for the New York Attorney General's Office for seven years, the last three of which he oversaw the Office's civil li...
Judge Juan Manuel Merchan agreed to a 30-day postponement and scheduled a hearing for March 25 to address questions about the evidence dump. The trial had been scheduled to start on March 25. It is among four criminal indictments against Trump, the presumptive 2024 Republican presidential nomine...
Manhattan Judge Juan Manuel Merchan agreed to a 30-day delay starting Friday and scheduled a hearing for March 25 after Trump’s lawyers complained that they only recently started receiving more than 100,000 pages of documents from a previous federal investigation into the matter. The trial had...
15, 2024, Donald Trump’s attorney Todd Blanche, left, speaks to Judge Juan Manuel Merchan regarding a trial date delay as Trump, seated center, watches. Trump’s New York hush-money case will start March 25, 2024, the first of his criminal trials. (Elizabeth Williams via AP) Trump’s...