He is an acting justice of the New York State Supreme Court in New York County (Manhattan). He presided over the 2024 criminal trial of former US president Donald Trump, in which Trump was found guilty by the jury.

May 31, 2024 · In 2022, Justice Merchan presided over the tax-fraud trial that led to the conviction of the Trump Organization's chief financial officer, Allen...

Apr 15, 2024 · New York Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan is a seasoned jurist who is no stranger to Trump’s orbit. He has presided over the Trump Organization tax fraud trial, sentenced the former...

Mar 17, 2024 · NEW YORK (AP) — Judge Juan M. Merchan looked across his high-ceilinged courtroom, facing the defendant in a complicated case. Not the one everyone knows about. Yes, Merchan could become the first judge ever to oversee a former U.S. president’s criminal trial: Donald Trump’s hush money case.

Mar 31, 2023 · Merchan sentenced the defendant to 25 years in prison. The so-called soccer mom madam case involved a suburban woman who was accused of running a high-end prostitution ring.

Apr 3, 2023 · Now Judge Juan Manuel Merchan is poised to take the historic hush-money prosecution of Trump himself. Merchan, a former prosecutor with 16 years on the bench, is expected to preside Tuesday over the unprecedented …

Jan 10, 2025 · The unconditional discharge, which state Judge Juan Merchan said he was likely to impose, allows Trump's conviction on 34 counts of falsifying business records to stand with no further penalties ...

Apr 2, 2023 · The judge handling the unusual and historic case is Juan Manuel Merchan, a veteran of the New York court system who has spent more than 15 years on the bench and is no stranger to...

Apr 15, 2024 · On a Wednesday afternoon earlier this month, Juan Merchan -- the New York judge who will preside over Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial beginning Monday -- stepped off his bench in Manhattan criminal court and shook a defendant's hand.

Apr 4, 2023 · After Donald Trump lost a last-ditch bid to delay the first-ever criminal trial of a former U.S. president, he lashed out at the New York judge overseeing the case: Justice Juan Merchan.