But the prosecution promised the panel of six jurors, who are all women, that it would prove that Zimmerman was never attacked by the teenager.
Asked whether Mr Laws's expenses claims were under police investigation, a Scotland Yard spokesman replied: "A small number of cases remain subject to consideration by the joint Metropolitan Police Service and Crown Prosecution Service assessment panel or are subject to continuing investigation.
All three appeals judges suggested that they were considering whether the trial judges could decide whether detainees were unlawful combatants and therefore eligible for prosecution by military panels.
But unknown to the public the director of public prosecutions sent a panel of experts to resolve this "muck or freedom" debate.
BACK in 2006, before the Obama administration made leak prosecutions routine, a panel of three federal appeals court judges in New York struggled to decide whether a prosecutor should be allowed to see the phone records of two New York Times reporters, Judith Miller and Philip Shenon, in an effort to determine their sources for articles about Islamic charities.
The Military Commission Act, a law passed in 2006, does not authorize such retroactive prosecutions, a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled.
A county-level civilian review board with subpoena power should be established to "investigate potential criminal wrongdoing by officers and to make recommendations for prosecutions", according to the panel, which also called for smaller civilian review boards in the dozens of municipalities in the St Louis region to monitor police departments.
There were 46 inmates originally put into the category of being 'beyond prosecution' by an inter-agency panel in 2010.
Yet the prosecution races on, with a panel of three judges set to resume the case on Thursday.
In its sentence, the panel accepted the prosecution argument that the crime amounted to cold-blooded murder and an ignoble betrayal of a mission to maintain security in a province bitterly divided between Serbs and Albanians.
