Alan David Dubelman, MD Inc.
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Brighton Botched Job Charged
Denver Post - May 14, 1992
An Adams County couple has filed a
lawsuit against the doctor they contend botched the circumcision of
their newborn son earlier this year. The lawsuit filed in Adams County District Court accuses Dr.
Alan Dubelman
of "negligently" amputating the tip of their day-old son's penis when
the child was circumcised Jan. 18. No dollar amount is mentioned in the
lawsuit.
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Four Female Patients Charge Family Doctor with Sexual Assault
Denver Post - December 3, 1992
THORNTON - A family doctor has been charged with sexually
assaulting four patients during examinations in his office, police said
yesterday.
Dr.
Alan David
Dubelman,
44, was served Tuesday with a summons charging him with three felony
counts of second-degree sexual assault and a fourth count of
third-degree sexual assault, a misdemeanor.
Police said
Dubelman,
who practices in Thornton and lives in Denver, came to the police
department to receive the summons. He is scheduled to appear in Adams
County Court on Dec. 30.
He could face up to
16 years in jail on each of the felony counts, said Bob Grant, Adams
County assistant district attorney. The misdemeanor charge carries a
maximum two-year jail term.
Second-degree
assault involves some type of penetration and third-degree assault means
touching, said police Lt. Karl Wilmes.
The four women said the incidents allegedly occurred on separate dates, Wilmes said.
The first woman told police in May 1991 that she had been sexually
assaulted by the doctor in his office. During the ongoing investigation,
other women came to police making similar complaints, Wilmes said.
Dubelman's attorney, Michael Axt, declined to comment.
The Colorado Board of Medical Examiners will discuss
Dubelman's
case when Thornton police forward requested information. Tom Beckett,
board administrator, said the information should arrive this week.
The board, which has regularly scheduled meetings tomorrow and next
Friday, should take up the situation within the next 10 days, Beckett
said.
The board also has authority to take emergency discipline against doctors who are considered a public threat.
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Mousetrap Reprieve continues
Denver Post - December 28, 1992
WEDNESDAY BRIGHTON - Dr.
Alan D.
Dubelman, accused of sexually assaulting four patients during examinations in his Thornton office, appears in Adams County Court.
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Doctor charged with assaulting teenage patient
By Maryilyn Robinson
Denver Post- January 22, 1993
A Thornton family doctor was charged yesterday with seven more
counts of sexually assaulting patients, including a 14-year-old girl.
Dr.
Alan David
Dubelman, 44, had been accused last month of four counts of sexual assault.
The latest Adams County charges include one count each of
first-degree sexual assault and sexual assault on a child, two counts of
second-degree sexual assault and three counts of third-degree sexual
assault, District Attorney Bob Grant said.
The
charges, which stem from incidents that allegedly occurred from 1987 up
to last October, include eight felonies and three misdemeanors.
Police have been investigating allegations of misconduct by
Dubelman since the first woman came forward in mid-1991.
During the ongoing investigation, other women came to police with
similar complaints. The 14-year-old contacted authorities after learning
of the first round of charges against the doctor, said Thornton
Detective Lori Moriarty.
The charges include allegations of inappropriate touching during examination or treatment, Moriarty said.
A Denver resident whose office was in Thornton,
Dubelman
agreed last month not to practice medicine until the case has been
resolved. The doctor reached the no-practice agreement with the Colorado
Board of Medical Examiners.
He faces a preliminary hearing March 15.
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Doctor pleads not guilty to sex assault charges
Denver Post - May, 29 1993
A Thornton doctor yesterday pleaded not guilty to 12 charges of
sexual assault on female patients, including at least one juvenile,
between 1987 and 1992.
The pleas were entered on behalf of Dr.
Alan Dubelman,
a 45-year-old general practitioner with offices in Thornton. Last
December, four of Dubelman's patients accused him of improper conduct
during gynecological examinations. The resulting publicity produced
other alleged victims and additional charges.
Before entering the plea on Dubelman's behalf yesterday, defense
attorney Harvey Steinberg ask Adams County District Judge Michael
Obermeyer to delay the arraignment. Steinberg said he needed time to
decide whether his client should plead not guilty because of impaired
mental condition to some of the charges.
"We have been in contact and received reports from one expert," Steinberg said. "The other expert is out of state."
Obermeyer said the impaired condition defense could be entered any
time, denied the request for delay and set trial for Nov. 1.
During a preliminary hearing last month, many of Dubelman's alleged
victims testified that the doctor assaulted them while at least one of
his nurses was in the examining room but not paying attention to the
examination.
Several of the witnesses at the
hearing said Dubelman made sexually suggestive remarks to them when the
nurse wasn't present and one woman said he attempted to force himself on
her while they were alone in the room.
One of
the alleged victims said she first met Dubelman at the athletic club
where he was a member and she an employee. She said after she attempted
suicide in June 1988 she called Dubelman and he went to her southeast
Denver home and took her to a Thornton hospital.
She said when Dubelman checked her out of the hospital the next day he took her to his office and raped her.
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Defense: Doctor has nervous condition
By Tracy Seipel
Denver Post - July 7, 1994
BRIGHTON - A Thornton doctor on trial for sexually assaulting
several female patients during gynecological exams suffers from a
lifelong nervous system disorder that makes his hands quiver, his lawyer
said during opening arguments yesterday.
And that condition, he implied, is what caused the women to believe the doctor was fondling them.
Dr.
Alan Dubelman,
45, a family physician, has been charged with 12 counts of sexual
assault on female patients, including at least one juvenile, between
1987 and 1992.
According to Adams County
prosecutor Candace Black, at least six of the women have accused
Dubelman of fondling them during pelvic examinations, usually when the
nurse was either absent or distracted.
A
seventh female victim alleges that while she was being treated for viral
meningitis in the hospital and under the influence of morphine,
Dubelman stopped by to visit her and fondled her breasts.
"This case is about an abuse of trust," Black told the jury of four women and eight men during opening statements.
"These women went to a doctor and exposed themselves in one of the
most vulnerable positions to Dr. Dubelman," she said. "Their trust was
abused and he assaulted them."
But Harvey
Steinberg, Dubelman's defense attorney, countered by saying nurses were
always present during the examinations and that the women never
complained to Dubelman at the time of the exam, but came forward with
their charges only after the case was publicized in the media.
Most important, said Steinberg, his client has suffered from a
syndrome called "essential tremor" since he was a teenager. Testimony
got off to a shaky start yesterday when a 40-year-old mother who had
visited Dubelman at least 11 times could not identify the doctor in the
courtroom.
Eventually, however, she settled on the doctor, seated next to Steinberg.
The woman said she'd gone to see Dubelman for problems related to a
yeast infection. When it came time for the physical examination on May
5, 1991, she said she reminded Dubelman how much women "hate these kinds
of things."
She said he told her to get up on
the table "in your favorite position," and she responded, "I wish you
had to do this." Then, she said, Dubelman asked her, "Do you fantasize
about having sex with a doctor on the table?"
The woman said she wasn't scared. "I just thought, "Let's get this
over,"' she said. Not long after, she said, while Dubelman was checking
her ovaries, he touched her twice in a stroking motion - a way she had
never been touched before by either Dubelman or any other doctor.
"It was like, "What's going on here?"' she recalled thinking. The
woman said she was shocked, and once the exam was over, she hurried to
leave.
When asked by Black if the woman noticed the doctor's hands shaking at any point, she said no.
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Doctor's prosecutors cry "ambush"
Denver Post - July 8, 1994
BRIGHTON - Lawyers prosecuting a doctor charged with sexually
assaulting female patients told a judge yesterday they'd been
"ambushed," "blind-sided" and "sandbagged" by the defense's claim that
the doctor suffered a disorder that makes his hands shake.
The defendant, 45-year-old Dr.
Alan Dubelman, has been charged with 12 counts of sexual assault on female patients, including at least one juvenile, between 1987 and 1992.
Two trials have been ordered for the Thornton doctor. The first one
began this week, and is focused on seven female patients who claim they
were inappropriately touched by Dubelman. But before the eight-man,
four-woman jury could enter the courtroom yesterday, the attorneys
engaged in heated battle over an alleged "bad faith" omission by defense
attorney Harvey Steinberg.
At issue were
comments by Steinberg during opening arguments Wednesday, when - for the
first time, according to prosecutors - he disclosed that his client
suffers from a condition called "essential tremor."
Steinberg said the disorder makes the doctor's hands quiver, which
the attorney implied is what caused the women to believe he was fondling
them.
But prosecutors told the judge that
Steinberg's surprise revelation to the jury violated discovery rules
that require both sides to provide witness statements and evidence that
will be presented during trial. Steinberg, furious, countered that he
had presented the name of the neurologist who was treating Dubelman, and
it was up to the prosecutors to divine why that doctor had been called.
District Judge Michael Obermeyer agreed that Steinberg's meaning was
not clear to the prosecutors, and ordered Steinberg to deliver all of
the doctor's records on Dubelman to his chambers yesterday for him to
review. Obermeyer was expected to offer the most relevant records to the
prosecutors in order to prepare them for the defense's argument.
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Trial opens for doctor accused of sex assault
Associated Press / Colorado Springs Gazette - July 8, 1994
BRIGHTON - A Thornton doctor accused of sexually assaulting
patients has a nervous disorder that makes his hands shake, which gave
women the impression he was inappropriately touching them, a defense
attorney said during opening remarks in the doctor's trial.
Dr.
Alan Dubelman,
45, a family physician, has been charged with 12 counts of sexual
assault on female patients from 1987 to 1992, including at least one
juvenile.
Six women have accused the doctor
of fondling them during pelvic examinations, saying the nurse was
either absent or distracted during the incidents, according to Adams
County prosecutor Candace Black.
A seventh
woman says Dubelman fondled her when he visited her while she was being
treated for viral meningitis at a hospital and was under the influence
of morphine.
"This case is about an abuse of
trust," Black told the jury of four women and eight men during opening
statements Wednesday.
But defense attorney
Harvey Steinberg argued that nurses always were present during the
pelvic examinations and that Dubelman's patients never complained at
the time.
Steinberg said his client has suffered from a syndrome called "essential tremor" since he was a teenager.
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Defense witness ruled out
By Tracy Seipel
Denver Post - July 9 1994
BRIGHTON - In a stunning blow to the defense, an Adams County
judge ruled that a key defense witness in the case of a doctor accused
of sexually assaulting his patients cannot testify on the doctor's
behalf.
The defendant, Dr.
Alan Dubelman, has been charged with 12 counts of sexual assault on female patients, including at least one juvenile, between 1987 and 1992.
At least six of the women have accused Dubelman of fondling them
during pelvic examinations at his office. During the trial's opening
statements Wednesday, Dubelman's attorney, Harvey Steinberg, told the
jury that his client suffers from "essential tremor," a lifelong nervous
system disorder that makes his hands shake.
And that, Steinberg claimed, is what caused the women to believe the doctor was touching them inappropriately.
The surprise strategy shocked Adams County prosecutors Brian McCoy
and Candace Black, prompting them to cry foul to District Judge Michael
Obermeyer. They argued that Steinberg had never informed them of the
"shaky hand" premise before the trial.
Steinberg, outraged, said he'd included the name of the neurologist who
had diagnosed Dubelman's condition in documents provided to the
prosecutors. It was up to them, he said, to find out why Steinberg was
calling the neurologist as a defense witness.
Judge Obermeyer then ordered Steinberg to deliver all the neurologist's
medical records related to Dubelman's affliction to his chambers
Thursday afternoon.
By Thursday night,
Obermeyer had ruled that because Steinberg failed to provide witness
statements and evidence to the prosecution prior to the trial, he is
forbidden to use the neurologist as a witness to bolster his case.
Yesterday, Steinberg asked Obermeyer to reconsider his decision,
pleading that the neurologist's testimony is "critical to the defense's
case." But Obermeyer refused.
Meanwhile,
prosecutors wrapped up their testimony against Dubelman yesterday with
Dr. Walter Freedman, director of obstetrics and gynecology at Denver
General Hospital.
When McCoy asked Freedman if
the methods used by Dubelman were considered standard medical practice
used in a pelvic exam, Freedman said no.
In
the last few days, six victims testified at trial that Dubelman fondled,
stroked or brushed their private areas while administering a pelvic
exam.
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Accused Doctor taking stand in sex-assault case
By George Lane
Denver Post - July 12, 1994
BRIGHTON - The trial of
the Northglenn doctor charged with inappropriately touching female
patients during gynecological examinations concluded yesterday with the
soft-spoken family practitioner on the witness stand saying, "I don't
recall" that ever happening.
"I'm saying that I have no memory of ever doing anything like that," Dr.
Alan Dubelman told the jury. "I don't ever recall that that happened."
Dubelman, 45, also said during direct examination by defense
attorney Harvey Steinberg and cross-examination by prosecutor Brian
McCoy that he recognized the six accusers who testified in his trial
last week and he knows them by their medical records, but he doesn't
remember the specific pelvic examinations between 1987 and 1992 during
which the women said they were assaulted.
He
also said that because he can't remember the specific examinations, he
can't remember if the examinations of the alleged victims were conducted
on days he was having a particularly bad time with hand "tremors."
During opening statements last week, Steinberg told the jury that
the accusing patients may have thought there had been inappropriate
fondling during their pelvic examinations because the doctor suffers
from "essential tremor," a life-long nervous system disorder that makes
his hands quiver.
Because Steinberg failed to
inform prosecutors about the shaking hands defense, District Judge
Michael Obermeyer wouldn't allow trial testimony from Dubelman's
neurologist about the disorder.
However,
before Dubelman's trial-ending testimony yesterday, information about
his shaking hands was provided to the jury by his office nurse of five
years and his ex-wife.
The nurse, Ginny Lou
Phillips, said that the doctor didn't like taking Inderol, the
medication that calmed his shaking hands, but that it was essential that
he take it when minor in-office surgery was planned.
"At times I had to bring him his Inderol to make sure he took it,"
Phillips testified. "When he took it his hands were steady as a rock."
The nurse also testified that she was the chaperone in the examining
room whenever Dubelman conducted pelvic examinations and there never
was any wrongdoing.
She said none of the
accusing women ever complained during or after their examinations. When
one called to complain the day after a gynecological examination,
Dubelman told the nurse, "By all means call her and apologize if she
believes I've done something wrong."
Carol
Dubelman, who was married to the doctor from 1980 to 1990, testified
that when she met Dubelman there was a common family joke that because
of his shaking hands he wasn't allowed to have coffee or wine in the
living room.
The ex-wife testified that Dubelman's mother suffers from the disorder as does her and Dubelman's older son.
She also said that her former husband didn't like taking the
medication that calmed his shakes because he was an avid runner and the
Inderol slowed his heart rate. "He was concerned about that."
The jury is expected to begin deliberations later today.
If Dubelman is found guilty of the five counts of second-degree
sexual assault and two counts of third-degree sexual assault he could be
sent to prison for up to 16 years for each conviction.
The doctor, who voluntarily has relinquished his license to
practice, faces trial on accusations by other female patients later this
summer.
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Doctor guilty of fondling faces 2 other charges
By George Lane
Denver Post - July 14, 1994
A Thornton doctor convicted of fondling female patients during
gynecological examinations now must prepare to meet two other Adams
County juries on more serious charges including rape.
Dr.
Alan Dubelman's
first Adams County District Court jury late Tuesday found him guilty of
two counts of second-degree sexual assault against former patients. He
faces up to 16 years in prison on each count when he is sentenced by
Judge Michael Obermeyer on Sept. 19.
The jury
of four women and eight men, who listened to four days of trial
testimony, failed to convict Dubelman of three more counts of
second-degree sexual assault and two counts of third-degree sexual
assault.
The 46-year-old Dubelman, who lives
in Denver but has offices in Adams County, now is facing an Aug. 29
trial on charges of sexual assault on a child and a third trial Aug. 31
on charges of first-degree sexual assault.
Yet
another trial on three misdemeanor sex charges was scheduled to start
Monday, but that trial date has been vacated and no new date has been
set, according to Assistant District Attorney Steve Bernard.
With the exception of the first-degree sexual assault count, the
charges against Dubelman basically involve allegations that the doctor
did inappropriate things to female patients with his hands during pelvic
examinations. The six women who testified during the just-completed
trial also accused the family doctor of making sexually suggestive
remarks to them before and during their examinations.
Defense attorney Harvey Steinberg tried to convince the jury that if
there was any inappropriate touching it was accidental and could be
attributed to a nervous disorder that makes Dubelman's hands shake when
he doesn't take medication.
The first-degree
sexual assault charge, scheduled for trial Aug. 31, is the result of an
allegation made not by a Dubelman patient but by a woman who said she
met the doctor while she was an employee at a health club.
During an April 1993 preliminary hearing, the woman testified she
met Dubelman and discussed an eating disorder with him, then called him
at his home in June 1988 after she had attempted suicide by swallowing
prescription pills and liquor. The woman said that the doctor came to
her southeast Denver home and took her to a Thornton hospital. She said
he checked her out of the hospital the next day, took her to his nearby
office and raped her.
If Dubelman is convicted
of first-degree sexual assault and sexual assault on a child during his
August trials, he could be sent to prison for up to 32 years on each
charge.
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Mile High Report
Denver Post / Rockies Edition - September 30, 1994
ADAMS COUNTY
*JUDGE STEPS ASIDE -
Because he knows one of the alleged victims, Adams County District Judge
Michael Obermeyer has removed himself as the judge in the upcoming
misdemeanor sex assault trial of Dr.
Alan Dubelman.
Obermeyer was the presiding judge in July when Dubelman was found
guilty of sexually assaulting two former female patients during pelvic
examinations and not guilty of assaulting five other former patients.
The Thornton doctor still faces trial a December trial on
misdemeanor charges of improperly touching female patients, and yet
another felony sexual assault trial. The judge said he recently learned
that one of the complaining former patients in the December trial is a
friend of his children.
Obermeyer refused
defense attorney Harvey Steinberg's request that he remove himself from
the upcoming felony trial or as sentencing judge for the two
convictions.
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Doctor starts 2nd assault trial 2 patients accuse Dubelman
Denver Post - December 13, 1994
BRIGHTON - A trial on misdemeanor sexual assault charges began
yesterday in Adams County District Court for a Thornton doctor who last
summer was convicted of felony charges for sexually assaulting two
female patients during gynecological examinations.
Dr.
Alan Dubelman,
a family practitioner who claimed to have had no memory of improperly
touching his patients during his sexual assault trial in July, is
charged in the latest trial with "groping, grabbing, fondling" and
attempting to have sex with two female patients in his office in 1991
and 1992.
The first trial witness yesterday
was a mother of two who said she went to Dubelman's office March 11,
1991, after the doctor told her in a telephone conversation that he
would give her sample medication for her young child's fever.
"I stopped at the front desk ... and he took me back into his
office," the witness said. "He closed the door and the next thing I knew
he had me pressed up against the wall."
She said the doctor had his body against hers and his hand all over her as she struggled against his advances.
"He said, "Oh come on, you know you want it. I've wanted you for so long,"' the witness testified.
"He was forcibly coming at me, and I was forcibly pushing him away. I
was pretty adamant about not letting him go any further."
She said she eventually was able to escape the office without being raped.
Prosecutor Candace Black said Dubelman was monitoring the second
victim for possible side effects from medication she was taking for
depression. In the patient's early visits, the doctor frequently would
hug the woman but eventually he attempted to kiss and force himself on
her, according to Black.
In his opening
statement to the jury, defense attorney Harvey Steinberg noted that the
alleged second victim brought a Thornton policeman along with her to one
of the appointments in Dubelman's office, and the policeman saw nothing
wrong with the doctor's behavior and no police report was written.
Steinberg also said that the alleged attack on the other woman was
supposed to have happened during a very busy time of day in the office
and other patients or the nurse certainly would have heard any screams
from Dubelman's office.
If Dubelman is found
guilty of the misdemeanor charges in the trial before District Judge
Harlan Bockman he likely will be sentenced to time in the Adams County
Jail.
However, he still hasn't been sentenced
from the July trial - in which he was found guilty of two felonies and
not guilty of five others.
He faces up to 32 years in prison for the felony convictions.
And he still faces one and possibly two more felony trials for the
alleged sexual assault of an underaged patient and raping another
patient.
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Doctor guilty in one case, cleared in 2nd
Denver Post - December 16, 1994
BRIGHTON - A Thornton doctor has been convicted by an Adams
County jury of sexually assaulting one patient in 1991, but acquitted of
the charge in a second case.
The jury Wednesday found Dr.
Alan Dubelman
guilty of the misdemeanor charge after a two-day trial. But the panel
found him not guilty of an identical charge involving a second patient.
Last July, another jury found the family practitioner guilty of
felony sexual assault of two former female patients and not guilty of
sexually assaulting five other patients.
In
the most recent trial, before District Judge Harlan Bockman, two women
testified that when each of them was alone with the doctor in his
office, each was attacked. Each woman said he fondled, kissed and
attempted to force sex on them, but each resisted.
"He said, "Oh come on, you know you want it,"' one of the women
testified earlier this week. "He was forcibly coming at me and I was
forcible pushing him away. I was pretty adamant about not letting him go
any further."
The patients who accused
Dubelman in the trial last summer charged that he did improper things
with his hands during gynecological examinations.
He still faces two more trials on charges he improperly touched an
underaged female patient during a gynecological examination and that he
raped a woman in his office after he had checked her out of the
hospital.
Dubelman faces up to 32 years in
prison for the July convictions and up to two years in jail for the
misdemeanor conviction. However, he won't be sentenced on any of the
convictions until all of the trials are completed.
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Slipup halts sex-assault trial
Denver Post - May 17, 1995
BRIGHTON - A misstatement by a judge resulted in a mistrial during
jury selection for the third trial of a Thornton doctor accused of
sexually assaulting patients.
Adams County District Judge Michael Obermeyer Monday declared the mistrial in the first-degree sexual assault trial of Dr.
Alan Dubelman after Obermeyer referred to "count number five" against the doctor. In fact, only one count was involved in the trial.
Bob Doyle, spokesman for the Adams County district attorney, said, "Of
course that, in (Obermeyer's) mind, tainted the jury because it implied
that there were other counts that weren't on trial there. So he granted a
mistrial."
Doyle said, "It's a mistake that happens occasionally."
The trial for which the jury was being selected involved the alleged
sexual assault of a woman who said she sought Dubelman's help after she
attempted suicide in 1988.
The woman testified
during an April 1993 preliminary hearing that she wasn't one of
Dubelman's patients, but had met the 46-year-old doctor at an athletic
club where she worked.
The woman, who was
suffering from depression, said she called Dubelman for help after
swallowing prescription pills and liquor. She said he came to her Denver
home and took her to an Adams County hospital where her stomach was
pumped and she was held overnight.
According to
testimony at the preliminary hearing, Dubelman checked the woman out of
the hospital the next day, took her to his Thornton office and sexually
assaulted her.
The woman did not report the
incident until years later after newspapers reported that several of
Dubelman's patients reported he fondled and improperly touched them
during gynecological examinations.
After a trial
last July, Dubelman was found guilty of two felony counts of
second-degree sexual assault against two former patients and not guilty
of sexually assaulting five others.
One of those two convictions, however, was set aside earlier this year and a new trial ordered.
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Testimony starts in doctor's trial
BRIGHTON - Testimony began yesterday in Adams County District Court for the latest trial of Dr.
,
a Thornton doctor who already has had two trials for fondling and
sexually assaulting female patients during gynecological examinations.
The trial for which testimony finally got under way yesterday is for
first-degree sexual assault - outright rape - of a woman who at least
temporarily was under Dubelman's care in summer 1988.
Dubelman's earlier trials before Adams County District Judge Michael
Obermeyer have been on charges of sexually assaulting patients by
improperly touching them during pelvic examinations or making sexual
advances to patients in the privacy of his office.
Those trials have resulted in one felony conviction for which he has
yet to be sentenced, another felony conviction that has been overturned
and must be retried, acquittal on five felony charges of improperly
touching patients, conviction of one misdemeanor sex charge and
acquittal on another misdemeanor charge.
Defense
attorney Harvey Steinberg, in his opening statement to the jury
yesterday, noted that the accuser in the case now on trial didn't come
forward until years after the alleged incident, when she saw media
coverage of Dubelman. Dubelman was featured in newspaper reports and on
television news after a number of his patients accused him of improper
acts in late 1992.
The defense attorney also told
the jury that the woman who made the charges in the alleged rape has a
history of emotional problems and several times has attempted suicide.
"There is no physical evidence except the word of (the woman)," Steinberg said.
During a preliminary hearing two years ago the woman said she wasn't
one of Dubelman's regular patients. She said she met the family
practitioner at an athletic club where she worked and called him June 1,
1988, after she attempted suicide by taking an overdose of pills.
Dubelman, who lives in Denver and had offices in Thornton, went to the
woman's Denver home and took her to North Suburban Medical Center near
his offices. The woman was treated at the hospital and held overnight.
The woman alleges that Dubelman checked her out of the hospital the
next day, took her to his offices and forced her to have sex. An earlier
prosecution on the rape charge ended in mistrial last month after a
jury was selected. Obermeyer declared the mistrial because he
inadvertently gave the jury information about the case that they
shouldn't have had.
