From the preponderance of articles at FR, the vast majority at their conveyor belt trials pled guilty to avoid extra hideous sentences.
As I understand it, one cannot appeal if one pled guilty.
Most of them made “plea deals” to conclude their cases. The government’s legal position is if the plea is reversed or withdrawn, there is no longer a deal. If there’s no longer a deal, the DOJ will pursue the harshest sentences available under the law.
That's AFTER they were broke down by un-Constitutionally long incarceration in tortuous conditions. And all the better defense attorneys got word they'd be ruined if they dared defend them so the protesters ended up with court-assigned 'assistant prosecutors' for defense attorneys - just like most poor people who end up fodder for the massive life-destroying judicial/imprisonment system.
It's a business and we're it's fuel for consumption. Note President Trump's predicament, ordered to give half a billion dollars for a made-up case where there were no victims nor damage to anyone - then forbidden from borrowing in New York State with his sons disqualified from transference. They want the orange man in a matching NYDC jumpsuit so bad they're willing to destroy future investments into NYC to have it happen.
A Supreme Court judge with the awesome name Learned Hand once said "This is not a court of Justice. It is a court of Law." Right now I'd take either over the farce we're witnessing.