The prosecution believes that a doctor convicted of raping a 20-year-old woman in 2010 should get 15 years in jail.

Dr. Gerald Forbes, who is now representing himself, gave Senior Justice Bernard Turner written sentencing submissions.

Forbes, who's been in custody since his conviction last September, will learn his fate next month.

Prosecutors accused Forbes of forcing himself on the woman after he tricked her into letting him into her office around 7 a.m. on March 9, 2010.

The victim worked in the plaza where Forbes ran his clinic, Carmichael Medical.

A few days before the assault, Forbes asked the woman if she could answer phone calls to the clinic when he wasn't there, according to the evidence. On the day in question, he came to her workplace ostensibly to bring the cordless phone.

However, once inside, Forbes, now 52, allegedly manhandled the woman and raped her in the bathroom.

A doctor, who examined the woman shortly after, said that she was sad, depressed and had contusions to her genitals.

Forbes, who took the witness stand against the advice of his lawyers, claimed that he and the woman "had good, passionate sex" in the bathroom.

Acting Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions Cordell Frazier and Karine McVean are the prosecutors.

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