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A new notice put out by New York Judge Juan Merchan notified both the Manhattan District Attorney's Office and former President Donald Trump's legal team about a post on the Facebook page from the New York court system, which purported to be from the cousin of a juror with knowledge of the verdict.

The comment in question came from a user identified as "Michael Anderson" around the same time Trump was convicted on 34 felony charges.

"My cousin is a juror and says Trump is getting convicted; Thank you folks for all your hard work!!!!" said the comment, which, according to Merchan, "responded to a routine UCS notice, posted on May 29, 2024, regarding oral arguments in the Fourth Department of the Appellate Division unrelated to this proceeding."...

A right-wing media personality complained on Sunday that Justice Juan Merchan was biased against Donald Trump, but was met with some intense backlash.

Conservative media personality Erick Erickson, the founder of Red State, took to social media over the weekend to a make a case that Merchan was more biased than Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, who said his wife flew an upside down flag in response to a Trump-related neighborhood dispute.

Merchan oversaw the New York criminal hush money cover-up case, where Trump was recently found guilty by a jury of his peers on 34 felony counts of business records fraud....

According to past defendants who have had their criminal trials overseen by New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan, a guilty defendant's sentence depends entirely on their level of respect for the courtroom and how remorseful they are after the verdict is announced.

The Daily Beast recently interviewed several past defendants who Merchan sentenced in previous trials, and virtually all of them agreed that the judge who presided over Trump's first criminal trial was tough, but fair and even-keeled. One defendant was Andrew Rossig, who was sentenced over a BASE jumping incident in which he parachuted from the top of the One World Trade Center building in lower Manhattan (built over the original site of the Twin Towers) in 2013.

While Rossig and his two co-defendants were acquitted of felony burglary charges, they were found guilty of two misdemeanor charges of reckless endangerment. Merchan said the men "sullied the memories" of 9/11 victims, who jumped to their deaths on September 11, 2001 "not for sport but because they had to." While prosecutors asked for 60 days incarceration, Merchan said jailing the men wouldn't "serve the best interests of our community" and sentenced Rossig to 200 hours of community service....

Former President Donald Trump's blockbuster filing to try to push Judge Juan Merchan out of the Manhattan hush money case has one interesting aspect many people have overlooked, according to former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann in a post on social media.

In the filing, Trump specifically went after Merchan's daughter — whom he has already attacked in a series of posts on social media — claiming that she has compromised Merchan because she works for a campaign vendor that works with Democratic campaigns, some of which mentioned the former president's indictment in fundraising pitches.

The specifics of the charges are less interesting, however, than another detail of the filing, Weissmann argued....

Thumbing his nose at an imposed gag order — defendant Donald Trump unloaded more insults against the judge in his hush-money criminal case and also took aim at his daughter.

"Judge Juan Merchan is totally compromised, and should be removed from this TRUMP Non-Case immediately," former President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social. "His Daughter, Loren, is a Rabid Trump Hater, who has admitted to having conversations with her father about me, and yet he gagged me."

He continued: "She works for Crooked Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Adam 'Shifty' Schiff, and other Radical Leftists who Campaign on 'Getting Trump,' and fundraise off the 'Biden Indictments' - including this Witch Hunt, which her father 'presides' over, a TOTAL Conflict - and attacking Biden’s Political Opponent through the Courts."...