Juan Manuel Merchan is an American judge and former prosecutor. He is an acting justice of the New York State Supreme Court in New York County (Manhattan). He is presiding over the 2024 criminal trial of former US president Donald Trump. Merchan is the first judge in history to preside over the criminal indictment of a sitting or former US President, and the first judge to hold a President in criminal contempt of court.
Key Trump witness nixed after Merchan's stringent rulings reveals what his testimony would have been
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Former FEC Commissioner Bradley Smith was set to testify in NY v. Trump, but was not brought before the court after presiding judge..