Legal analysis: whether to appeal is up to the defendant. Therefore, as family members, if they think it is necessary to appeal, they should entrust a lawyer to meet the defendant in the detention center before the expiration of the appeal period of criminal judgment 10 to solicit the defendant's own opinions. If the defendant requests an appeal, the defendant can sign the appeal and submit it to the court of first instance through a lawyer, or the defendant can submit the appeal to the detention center for discipline, and the discipline will forward the appeal to the court of first instance.
Legal basis: Article 166 of the Civil Procedure Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) filed a case through the people's court that originally tried the case, and submitted a copy according to the number of the other party or representative. If the parties directly appeal to the people's court of second instance, the people's court of second instance shall transfer the appeal to the people's court that originally tried the case within five days. "