Juan Merchan

Juan Merchan
Justice of the New York Supreme Court
Acting
Assumed office
2009
Appointed byAnn Pfau
Personal details
BornJuan Manuel Merchan
1962 or 1963 (age 62–63)
Bogotá, Colombia
EducationBaruch College (BBA)
Hofstra University (JD)
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Juan Manuel Merchan (born 1962/1963) 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 presided over the 2024 criminal trial of former US president Donald Trump, in which Trump was found guilty by the jury. Merchan is the first judge in history to preside over the criminal indictment and a guilty verdict of a US President, and the first judge to hold a President in criminal contempt of court.

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