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 ...

The president-elect laid out his thoughts on Merchan and the requirement to show up for sentencing on January 10 in his criminal hush money case.

But the charges were dismissed after Trump was elected because of a Justice Department rule ... New York Judge Juan Manuel Merchan has presided over criminal cases against former President Trump ...

Juan Manuel Merchan What to know: Trump was indicted last June on charges stemming from the Justice Department’s investigation into his handling of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate ...

Judge Juan Manuel Merchan scheduled a hearing for March 25 ... but they stopped short of accusing Trump of directly committing a crime. The Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel ...

New York Justice Juan Merchan’s decision to let Donald Trump go unpunished for his 34 felony-count convictions was the right ...

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 ...