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 p…