I will add that there were checks made if anyone wishes to appeal, they might not have been timely due to a riot/protest/jailbreaks whatever you want to call it, but riots/jailbreaks ALLOWS the suspension of appeals in either case; however there were extra checks later if i recall correctly. (im sorry if im merging 2 rounds with an radm involvement)
Denying of medical treatment. im not too sure on this one, none of the prisoners looked injured where i was checking on them, but i did notice such a complaint on the coms. iirc for what i asked about that in round, that a was a self inflicted injury in an attempt to give the cmo an excuse to jailbreak. my understanding was that the cmp was taking care of it too.
After a while a RADM was present and they took over all legal matters, they especially focused on appeals. IMO this special event would clear an XO form their normal duties of checking on the brig, much as it would with a CO. Despite this the XO called for the RADM multiple times, something which as far as i know the radm never got around to. The radm did also not get around to giving everyone a chance to talk to them directly. again, the right to an appeal is suspended if they are dealing with another appeal.
There was no intentional attempt by the mps to deny or even delay any appeals to the best of my knowledge, but some may have been so due to the riots, and if they did it would still be covered under ml in such a circumstance. The CMP was still mostly around the brig during all of this, and the brig was usually staffed by multiple people too.
that said, there werent many requests for appeals made to the mps, and those made as far as i know were grandad, but ultimately resolved as denied. (im using denied in a different sense from op)
OOC wise, you have a first time XO, in and understaffed CIC, who can not legally overrule the CMP player, who is one of the mp mains. there was no real dissent from the mp department against the legality of the CMPs actions, at least no icly, which again was staffed by a few mps mains. i belive the xo knew this too. i believe they knew that a fax was made too; having the XO leave things up to HC/ahelps in such a situation seems reasonable.