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Juan Manuel Merchan
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Supreme Court, New York County, Criminal
100 Centre Street
New York , NY 10013
+1-646-386-3934
Status: Active
Judicial Experience:
Acting Justice, Supreme Court, New York County, Criminal, Appointed by Chief Administrative Judge Ann Pfau, 2009 to Present
Judge, Court of Claims, Appointed by Governor David Paterson, 2009 to 2018
Judge, Court of Claims, Appointed by Governor David Paterson, 2009 to 2009
Judge, Family Court of the City of New York, Bronx County, Appointed by Mayor Michael Bloomberg, 2006 to 2009
Other Professional Experience:
Assistant Attorney General in-Charge Nassau County Region, NYS Attorney General, 2003 to 2006
Assistant Attorney General in-Charge of Affirmative Litigation for Nassau and Suffolk Counties, NYS Attorney General, 2001 to 2003
Deputy Attorney General in-Charge Nassau County Region, NYS Attorney General, 1999 to 2001
Investigations Division, New York County District Attorney's Office, 1998 to 1999
Trial Division, New York County District Attorney's Office, 1994 to 1998
Education:
J.D., Hofstra University School of Law, 1994
B.B.A., Baruch College, City University of New York, 1990
Admission to the Bar:
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York, 2001
NYS, Appellate Division, Second Department, 1996
Professional Civic Activities/Honors/Awards:
Member, Association of Judges of Hispanic Heritage
Member, Hispanic National Bar Association
Adjunct Faculty Member, Hofstra University School of Law, National Institute for Trial Advocacy
Profile provided by the New York State Office of Court Administration.
https://archive.ph/sSgx3
Politics
Trump Judge Has Had Some Dramatic Cases, Like âSoccer Mom Madamâ
Juan Merchan gets DAâs tax case against Trumpâs company, CFO
Adventures on bench include the stuff of tabloid headlines
Allen Weisselberg, chief financial officer of Trump Organization Inc., second left, appears before a judge at criminal court in New York, on July 1.
Photographer: Barry Williams/The New York Daily News/Bloomberg
By
Bob Van Voris
July 2, 2021,2:01 PM UTC
The New York judge set to hear the criminal case against Donald Trumpâs company and its chief financial officer has had his share of courtroom drama.
In one case Juan Merchan oversaw, a suburbanite named Anna Gristina became the subject of tabloid headlines in 2012after she was charged with running a $2,000-an-hour escort service for wealthy and powerful men.Merchan set a $2 million bond, forcing Gristina to spend 4 months in New York Cityâs forbidding Rikers Island jail before an appeals court reduced her bail. In the end she pleaded guilty and got six months, including time served. A Lifetime movie about the case titled âSoccer Mom Madamâ premiered June 6.
Proceedings in Merchanâs court can be more volatile than in the federal courthouse a few doors away, where the former president and the Trump Organization have often litigated. As Merchan sentenced a defendant to 13 years in prison for gun possession and reckless endangerment in 2016, the manâs sister had to be locked up herself for interrupting and threatening the prosecutor, saying, âIâm gonna kill the DA,â according to a report in the New York Daily News.
Read More: Trump Organization, CFO Plead Not Guilty in N.Y. Criminal Case
Merchan sentenced to community service two men who in 2013 parachuted from the Freedom Tower, the skyscraper that replaced the World Trade Center towers. He told them they had âsullied the memoriesâ of the people who died in the terror attacks there. In 2012 he sentenced a Senegalese man who had raped and murdered his former girlfriend to 25 years to life, having ruled earlier that the defendantcouldnât call a âwitch doctorâ to support his claim that he was under a curse that made him kill.
He also presides over cases in Manhattanâs Mental Health Court, which handles nonviolent criminal cases involving people with mental illnesses and connects defendants with special services to divert them from prison where appropriate.
Started in DAâs Office
Merchan began his legal career in 1994 as a Manhattan prosecutor, in the same office that brought the case against Trumpâs company, then left to work for the state attorney general. Former mayorMichael Bloombergappointed him as a Family Court judge in the Bronx in 2006. Bloomberg is the founder and majority owner of Bloomberg LP, which owns Bloomberg News.
Merchan has been an acting justice in the criminal section of Manhattanâs trial-level court, the New York County Supreme Court, since 2009. Heâs a graduate of Baruch College and Hofstra University School of Law.
He has a critic in Norman Pattis, who represented Gristina in the escort service case and âdid not enjoy the experience.â
âYouâve got an adversary and youâve got the judge, and the three of you are working together to solve difficult and explosive issues,â the lawyer said. âHe was a difficult man to work with.â
A call to the judge for comment wasnât answered. New York state court spokesman Lucian Chalfen offered a touch of irony in response.
A defense attorney âcriticizing a judge regarding the outcome of their case?â he said. âThatâs a first.â
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