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NEW: Woman testifies she resisted Balcones officer's advances
Web Posted: 05/18/2005 01:21 PM CDT

Guillermo Contreras
Express-News Staff Writer

A woman testified today that she resisted the sexual advances of former Balcones Heights police officer Rolando Rico Treviño as she and four of her friends were detained at the city's police station.

The dimunitive woman, now in her early 20s, admitted she was drunk after partying that night but said Treviño danced up behind her and "put his hand down my pants."

She said she stepped away from Treviño and faced him, and he then grabbed her hand and forced her to touch his groin area, which he had exposed. She maintained that his advances were unwelcome.

"I felt I really couldn't do anything because he was a cop," the woman said.

The woman was among a group of five woman detained about 1:30 a.m. Nov. 24, 2002, on suspicion of public intoxication by Treviño, 28, and fellow officer Dwaun Jabbar Guidry, 30. All five women testified in January at Guidry's federal trial.

Guidry was convicted of conspiring with Treviño to violate the women's civil rights, but that information is not likely to be disclosed during Treviño's trial, which continues through Friday before U.S. District Judge Xavier Rodriguez. Treviño is also charged with conspiracy to violate the women's rights.

Over and over, the woman repeated many of her answers as Edward Camara Jr., one of Treviño's lawyers, tried to poke holes in her story.

On Tuesday, a convenience store clerk testified that the woman was so intoxicated she twice ran into the store's glass door, and that she also stood on a concrete planter, danced and then tumbled to the ground. The clerk called Balcones Heights police.

"I don't remember that at all," the woman said when Camara questioned her about her activity at the store.

But the woman stood firm that the officers initiated the sexual contact at the station, and reiterated that she stepped away or pulled her hand away when Treviño tried to make her touch him.

Why didn't the women report the matter to law enforcement after being released?

"Because it was police that did this to us -- the blue code thing," the woman said, referring to her belief that officers protect each other.
The four other women are also expected to testify today or Thursday to back up federal prosecutors' claims that the officers used their positions to have their way with the women, and violated their civil rights.

Treviño's lead lawyer, Jimmy Parks, told jurors in his opening statement that he, Camara and fellow attorney Scott McCrum plan to show the women initiated the contact by flirting so the officers would let them go.

"They were consensually and voluntarily engaging in promiscuous sexual activity," Parks said.

If convicted, Treviño faces up to 10 years in prison . Guidry faces up to life in prison when he's sentenced June 16.



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