In his Monday ruling, Justice Juan Merchan rejected a request from Trump's lawyers to delay the sentencing while they appealed two of the judge's previous rulings upholding the Manhattan jury's May guilty verdict on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. T...
President-elect Donald Trump's criminal conviction in state court remains on the books Monday, after a New York judge rejected an effort by Trump to have the case tossed based on a landmark Supreme Court ruling. Justice Juan Merchan found that aJuly Supreme Court rulinggranting Trump presidenti...
President-electDonald Trumpon Monday lost an effort to have his criminalhush moneyconviction dismissed in a New York court on a claim ofpresidential immunity. Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan brushed aside arguments by Trump's lawyers that he should toss out the case because of the pro...
New York Justice Juan Merchan then issued an order last weeksetting Trump's sentencingfor Jan. 10, just 10 days before his inauguration. The New York judge said he does not intend to sentence the president-elect to incarceration and is allowing him to appear virtually instead of in person. ...
Trump has asked the Supreme Court to call off Friday’s sentencing. His lawyers turned to the nation’s highest court Wednesday after New York courts refused to postpone the sentencing by Judge Juan M. Merchan, who presided over Trump’s trial and conviction last May on 34 felony counts of...
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. January 10, 2025 10:42am EST Supreme Court rejects Trump’s bid to delay sentencing in his New York hush money case ...
The decision meansTrump's gag order, which bars him from speaking about jurors, witnesses and other parties involved in the Manhattan Supreme Court case, remains in effect. Trump's attorneys have also asked Judge Juan Merchan, who presided over the trial, to terminate the gag order because th...
Justice Juan Merchan, the judge who will preside over the trial, has taken the bench. Merchan is a veteran judge in the New York Supreme Court (which is how New York refers to its trial courts). In 2022, Merchan presided over a criminal tax fraud trial against the Trump Organization....
In the interview, Merchan told the AP that he and his staff were working diligently to prepare for the historic first trial of a former president, saying: “There’s no agenda here. We want to follow the law. We want justice to be done.” ...
Judge Juan Merchan was set to rule Tuesday on whether he would throw out Trump’s guilty verdicts in New York. Instead, the only criminal case in which Trump has gone to trial is delayed again.