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

Follow live updates and the latest news coverage as Trump attends his sentencing hearing with Judge Juan Merchan following ...

Some criminal defendants use the opportunity to address the court to express remorse. The president-elect did no such thing.

Donald Trump was sentenced without penalty in the New York hush money case Friday after a symbolic – and historic and ...

Donald Trump was convicted in May on 34 counts of falsifying business records. He was sentenced Friday in a New York court.

President-elect Donald Trump was sentenced Friday in his hush money case, but the judge declined to impose any punishment, an ...

The rare and lenient sentence, which will spare President-elect Donald J. Trump jail time, was used to address his unusual ...

Judge Juan Merchan imposed an "unconditional discharge” that means Trump receives no prison time or probation. Trump ...

The New York judge who presided over Donald Trump’s hush money case on Friday sentenced the president-elect to an ...

Judge Juan Merchan sentenced Donald Trump to an “unconditional discharge,” which Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s office said it ...

The criminal case brought against Trump by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg began trial proceedings last April. After ...

Juan Merchan is the first judge to preside over the criminal case and conviction of a former U.S. president and to hold him in criminal contempt of court.