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3 Jun 2024, 3:00 am by jonathanturley
Clarence Darrow would likely have lost with those instructions after the errors in the case by Judge Juan Merchan. [read post]
1 Jun 2024, 4:10 am by jonathanturley
But those words were not from Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan, and the conviction was not that of former President Donald Trump. [read post]
1 Jun 2024, 3:21 am by SHG
Justice Juan Merchan has no authority to rule or charge anything other than the law of New York as it currently stands. [read post]
31 May 2024, 4:28 am by jonathanturley
Judge Juan Merchan told the court that the jury had not reached a verdict and would be dismissed for the day. [read post]
31 May 2024, 3:22 am by SHG
Justice Juan Merchan was exceptionally fair to the defendant, far more so than judges usually are to defendants. [read post]
30 May 2024, 2:08 pm by JURIST Staff
Just before Judge Juan Merchan announced the jury had a verdict, Trump said on his social media platform Truth Social, “MY CIVIL RIGHTS HAVE BEEN TOTALLY VIOLATED WITH THIS HIGHLY POLITICAL, UNCONSTITUTIONAL, AND ELECTION INTERFERING WITCH HUNT. [read post]
30 May 2024, 9:15 am
The jury must be unanimous when it comes to determining whether Trump is guilty or not guilty of each specific falsifying business records count, and whether he did so in an effort to unlawfully impact an election, New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan said. [read post]
30 May 2024, 5:09 am by jonathanturley
Before jurors left, however, Judge Juan Merchan framed their deliberations in a way that seemed less like a jury deliberation than a canned hunt. [read post]
28 May 2024, 4:00 am by jonathanturley
  The column explores the key elements for a closing to bring clarity to the chaos of Judge Juan Merchan’s courtroom. [read post]
27 May 2024, 5:45 am by Norman L. Eisen
Last week, both the prosecution and the defense rested their cases in former President Donald Trump’s New York trial for allegedly falsifying business records (FBR) in his effort “to unlawfully influence the 2016 presidential election,” in the words of Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan’s case summary. [read post]
27 May 2024, 4:00 am by jonathanturley
Bragg’s legal vision for non-objective indictments was greatly advanced by Judge Juan Merchan, who will allow the jury to reach different rulings on what crime is actually evident in Bragg’s paint splatters. [read post]
25 May 2024, 3:58 am by jonathanturley
There has been much discussion of the gag order imposed on Trump by Justice Juan Merchan, who is controlling not only the travel but the speech of the leading presidential candidate from his small Manhattan courtroom. [read post]
24 May 2024, 5:34 am by jonathanturley
Judge Juan Merchan has refused every opportunity to bring an end to this politically manufactured prosecution. [read post]
23 May 2024, 9:01 pm by Austin Sarat
On Wednesday, as he left the Manhattan courtroom where he is on trial, former President Donald Trump launched a broadside attack on District Attorney Alvin Bragg and Judge Juan Merchan, who is presiding at his trial. [read post]
21 May 2024, 4:51 am by Beatrice Yahia
Costello angered Judge Juan Merchan yesterday by making comments under his breath, rolling his eyes, and calling the exercise “ridiculous. [read post]
21 May 2024, 3:30 am by jonathanturley
What is happening in the courtroom of Judge Juan Merchan is anything but ordinary. [read post]
19 May 2024, 4:15 am by SHG
As much as Trump keeps pounding on the claim that he can’t get a fair trial in New York, Justice Juan Merchan has been exceptionally fair in his rulings, bending over backwards to give Trump the trial he deserves even if Trump is stunningly unappreciative. [read post]