A Sands Point doctor pleaded not guilty to allegedly taping false jury instructions to the tables and doors of jury rooms while he was on trial in March for raping a patient, the district attorney announced.
Marshall Hubsher, 67, entered the plea on Thursday to 13 counts of attempted jury tampering and third-degree burglary.
Hubsher, a psychiatrist, allegedly entered a private jury room wearing a disguise and placed signs with fake jury instructions in an attempt to tamper with the jury in his trial, according to the district attorney’s office.
“The note allegedly directed at the jury purported to be ‘jury instructions’ concerning reasonable doubt,” a news release from the office said.
Hubsher faces two to seven years in prison if found guilty, the office said.
Efforts to reach Hubsher’s defense attorney were unavailing.
Court records show that a warrant was issued for Hubsher’s arrest on Nov. 21.
“This defendant allegedly put on a disguise and attempted to tamper with a jury while it was deliberating his fate in another case,” District Attorney Madeline Singas said in a statement. “The integrity of the jury process is at the heart of our justice system and we will not tolerate anyone trying to tamper with or threaten jurors in Nassau County.”
Hubsher was convicted of raping a 24-year-old patient he was treating for anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder and other illnesses. He was arrested in that case in April 2012 and is currently serving up to three years in prison.
An investigation conducted by the State Board for Professional Medical Conduct found that Hubsher also asked the patient to take a picture of him for a magazine and sent threatening emails.
Hubsher also left the patient voice mails telling her that if she didn’t take his side in the investigation, he would release “damaging information” about her and her family, the investigation shows.
Hubsher was also arrested in November 2015 for allegedly selling prescriptions for Adderall and Xanax to patients out of his office in the Roslyn section of Flower Hill.
He was charged with fourth-degree conspiracy and three counts of unauthorized practice. At the time, he was set to appear in court in December 2015 for the rape charges.
Hubsher and a Long Beach-based doctor allegedly sold prescriptions to patients out of Hubsher’s office, where he was still seeing patients after losing his license to practice.
On at least three occasions, prosecutors said in 2015, investigators found that Hubsher met patients in “a nontraditional setting” such as the office hallway to ask medical questions and receive cash.
This case is pending, court records show.
In June 2012, Hubsher surrendered his license to practice medicine in New York to resolve multiple charges brought by the State Board for Professional Medical Conduct, records show.
The district attorney’s office declined to comment on Hubsher’s past cases.
Hubsher’s medical license was revoked in 1995 after he was charged with professional misconduct, according an investigation by the State Board for Professional Medical Conduct and the Department of Health, and was reissued in 2006.
He submitted multiple requests to have his license reinstated, records show.
The investigation also found that Hubsher submitted false insurance claims to GHI Insurance Company over 40 times over three years.
