Joyce Vance discusses Merchan citing a recent report from Chief Justice John Roberts while announcing Trump's sentencing date.

New York Judge Juan Merchan gave Americans an unusual level of access Friday by making public the audio from President-elect Donald Trump's criminal sentencing. In a roughly 30 minute hearing Friday, ...

As Judge Merchan had indicated the week before, his formal sentencing of President Trump imposed no penalty. Trump will not serve jail time, be placed on probation, perform community service, or pay a ...

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 ...

Blanche represented President Donald Trump in special counsel Jack Smith’s classified documents and Jan. 6 cases, as well as ...

That said, New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan strongly indicated Trump will face no jail time or even probation. Despite previewing a sentence without real punishment, Merchan ...

Trump pushed for an emergency hearing for an interim stay on the sentencing as he appeals a pair of recent rulings by New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan, who presided over the hush money case ...

Merchan in court papers Monday that dismissal is warranted because of the extraordinary circumstances of his impending return to the White House. New York Judge Juan M. Merchan had been set to ...

In a filing to the top New York court, Trump’s attorneys had said Merchan and the state’s mid-level appellate court both “erroneously failed” to stop the sentencing, arguing that the ...

NEW YORK (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump ... president to take office convicted of crimes. Manhattan Judge Juan M. Merchan ordered Friday’s sentencing to proceed as scheduled, rejecting ...

NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump has ... but couldn’t do so until he was sentenced. The trial judge, Juan M. Merchan, previously rejected Trump’s requests to throw out the conviction ...