Judge Juan Merchan ruled that Trump’s sentence was “unconditional discharge,” which means no sentence. It is not just about no jail time; it is no monitoring, no probation, nada. When Trump ...

Juan Merchan, who Trump has also excoriated Judge Juan Merchan for and who was involved in Trump’s New York criminal trial. Trump has called him “Corrupt, Deeply Conflicted, Democrat Appointed ...

For instance, he has derided Justice Juan Merchan, the New York trial judge who presided over the hush money case, as “corrupt.” And Trump has said Justice Arthur Engoron, another New York ...

And Judge Merchan made it abundantly clear that it was not the president who deserved or whose position necessitated the treatment. Rather, it was the legal protections afforded to the office ...

Your thoughts?” — T. Teter, Richmond, Va. Hi, T., According to Judge Juan Merchan, he gave Trump the lenient “unconditional discharge” sentence because he thought he had to. Here’s what ...

The sentence was effectively nothing. Although Trump had been convicted of 34 felonies, Judge Juan Merchan sentenced him to what is called “unconditional discharge,” which means no jail time ...

Last Friday, New York county judge Juan Merchan proceeded with official sentencing of Donald J. Trump following the president-elect's controversial May 2024 conviction for business records ...

Smith’s political exercise is of a piece with Judge Juan Merchan’s insistence that Trump be sentenced last week. Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg declined to dismiss the absurd case ...

State Supreme Court Justice Juan M. Merchan’s imposing no punishment for the 34 felonies manufactured by the prosecutors tells us that the “stain of a criminal conviction” was the true ...

The trial court made its decision shortly after the New Year. In a decision dated Jan. 3, 2025, Judge Juan Merchan denied Trump’s request for a dismissal. Judge Merchan ruled that the ...

That was the upshot of New York Justice Juan Merchan’s deft handling, with a critical assist from the U.S. Supreme Court, of Trump’s conviction on cover-up charges tied to hush-money payments ...

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