THREE judges have reserved their decision on an appeal against the murder acquittal of prominent Perth barrister Lloyd Rayney. Exactly six years since Corryn Rayney disappeared, lawyers for her estranged husband have been arguing that his acquittal was justified while the state has been pushing for a retrial. Ms Rayney disappeared on August 7, 2007 after her weekly bootscooting class in Perth and was found days later in a bush grave at Kings Park. Her husband, Lloyd Rayney, was cleared of her murder in November last year following a highly publicised three-month trial. Prosecutors appealed the verdict, claiming there were errors of law in the judgment by former Northern Territory chief justice Brian Martin, who concluded Ms Rayney was randomly attacked outside her home. Mr Rayney's lawyer, Bret Walker SC, argued in the WA Court of Appeal on Wednesday it was an "extremely ambitious conclusion" to claim the trial and judgment were flawed. He submitted that Justice Martin considered all of the evidence and "faithfully" followed the law. Lawyer for the state, David Jackson QC, claimed Justice Martin did not properly consider the evidence as a whole including a dinner place card with Mr Rayney's name on it that was found near the gravesite, which he considered a "smoking gun." Phone tapping evidence was also not considered in the context of other evidence, he said. Mr Rayney's lawyers submitted a notice of contention to the court, arguing the verdict was correct but the reasons were not, and cited three grounds. They claimed the trial judge erred in his conclusions about the time Ms Rayney's car was heard driving near her grave site. He also erred in finding that the evidence proved Ms Rayney returned home after her dance class and was attacked outside the family home, the respondents said. However, the appellants referred to the judge's finding that there was more believable evidence that the car was heard around 2.25am (WST), rather than later in the morning. They also said the state relied on evidence of soil, paint and brick fragments on her clothes and boots, which the judge concluded was linked to the Como home. The judge found it was "unlikely in the extreme" that she was waylaid on her way home and forced somewhere else where there was the same combination of soil and artefacts, the appellants said. Thirdly, the appellants referred to the judge's finding that it was too early in the case for anyone to think of planting the seed pods in Ms Rayney's hair to fabricate evidence. The judges said they would hand down their finding "as soon as we practically can." Outside court, Ms Rayney's sister said it had been a long journey that was not yet over.