N EW YORK CITY, NEW YORK: Judge Juan Merchan, who presided over the criminal hush money trial of Donald Trump in the Manhattan Criminal Court, notified his defense team of a comment on the court's public Facebook page that implied one of the jurors discussed the guilty verdict with his family before the trial concluded, reports Fox News.

But for all the cases I saw, I never encountered anything remotely as challenging as what Justice Juan Merchan faced in his Manhattan courtroom while presiding over the first criminal trial of a former president. And since Donald Trump was found guilty on 34 counts, Justice Merchan has come under further vicious attack.