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This will of course always depend on where the novel actually plays out because laws differ by country and often even by subnational division. But generally speaking: the chances of appeals succeeding have been severely overstated by popular media, mostly because it makes for a good story (you lose unfairly but then can make everything right). Generally judges hate going against their colleagues if they can avoid it. So new evidence better be pretty damn strong so it must be overturned because the new trial usually doesn't start with an empty slate but with the scales heavily biased towards whoever won the previous trial.She has the right to appeal against the decision. The judge told her she can but wouldn't advise it. If she can show "evidence" that supports what she said, that could be enough for the appeal to work.
Then again, this (Single Again) is an example of popular media itself, so it can ignore all that and go whatever way the storyteller pleases even if it would never turn out that way in the real world.