Justice Juan M. Merchan, an even-keeled jurist, has been in the president-elect’s cross-hairs for nearly two years.

After the trial, on Jan. 3, Merchan slammed Trump's "lack of respect for judges, juries, grand juries and the justice system ...

Juan Manuel Merchan was born in Bogota, Colombia, on July 29, 1962, during a period of violence involving the government, peasant self-defense groups, communists, students, Catholic radicals and ...

Long Islander Juan M. Merchan will go down in history as the judge who sentenced President ... who The New York Times has reported is a native of Colombia, grew up in Queens and graduated ...

Judge Juan Merchan understands that jury verdicts matter. And in this case, the verdict matters more than the sentence.

It was a brief and relatively calm final encounter of Trump's relationship with Justice Juan Merchan ... Colombia to New York City as a child, became a prosecutor in 1994 and was appointed a judge ...