MUSCATINE, Iowa- Testimony is underway in the trial of former Muscatine police officer Tom Tovar, accused of sexually assaulting a very intoxicated woman while on a call in 2013.
Tovar is accused of escorting the woman back to her hotel in his squad car after her boyfriend's arrest for OWI, and raping her.
The woman, who is not hiding her identity, testified on Tuesday that she was so drunk she remembers almost nothing about the incident.
"I had a flash of memory. It immediately came to my mind that it was a police officer, that he was laying on me," said Shari Martin.
Martin told the jury she was out drinking all night with her boyfriend, doing shots and Long Island Ice Teas.
A police dash cam video during the arrest shows Martin stumbling toward Tovar's squad car.
Tovar's DNA was found in the woman's jeans. In opening statements to the jury, his attorney says if there was sex, it was consensual.
"You're going to see this is one of those women, who engage in sex for benefit and is willing to cry rape after a consent," said attorney Murray Bell.
The defense maintains Martin may have thought she could help get her boyfriend out of the OWI.
On the witness stand, she said she still has no clear idea what happened that night.
"I don't remember," she said repeatedly.
Prosecutors say Tovar is unaccounted for in the hotel for 13 minutes, and say his department-issued body microphone and squad car cam were both turned off at that time.
Tovar resigned from the force after being arrested. He is expected to take the witness stand.