All posts tagged "Judge Juan Merchan"

President-elect Donald Trump should not have gotten away scot-free without any penalty whatsoever after being convicted on 34 felony counts of business fraud, according to a legal analyst.

Eric Foster, an attorney and columnist with The Plain Dealer, argued that the immunity doctrine cited by Judge Juan Merchan should not have colored his decision to impose an actual penalty on the convicted felon, soon to be the 47th president of the United States.

That's because the immunity doctrine doesn't apply to "unofficial acts," and Trump's convictions in this case were for acts he committed for his family business, The Trump Organization....

A CNN legal expert on Saturday put Judge Juan Merchan on notice that he made a mistake during the criminal trial of former president Donald Trump.

Former federal prosecutor Elie Honig appeared on CNN over the weekend to discuss Trump and the criminal charges he's facing. Specifically, the host asked Honig about an interaction in which Merchan, who is overseeing the Trump case, made a comment about what the jury will be deciding.

The host began by quoting Merchan, who said Trump's lawyer's denial of the purported Stormy Daniels affair "puts the jury in a position of having to choose who they believe, Donald Trump, who denies there was an encounter, or Stormy Daniels, who claims that there was one."...