Hi I’m from Illinois in the Cook County District. So I just had court today and my story goes like this. I live in the West Suburbs and went to the town of Cicero with my brother for a halloweeen party my coworker was having. When we went there it wasn’t any parking around her house so we found two parking spaces on the street a couple blocks down. We doubled parked because our friend was coming and we were just gonna move up so they could park behind us and we could just walk in together. So as me and my brother is sitting in the car on our phones a lady whose house we are in front of keeps coming out on her porch and looking at us. And we didn’t think anything of it until she came out again with her phone and called the police on us! We heard the whole conversation and she wanted to make sure we heard it. She was saying “there’s two guys in front of my house and I don’t know what there doing and they been sitting here for 15 minutes now” and me and brother can’t belive what’s happening and I said just stay here we didn’t do anything wrong we’re just on our phones in our car and we’ll just tell the officer the truth. So when the police did come we told him that but he was kinda suspicious of us like we were thugs or up to something and told us to get out of the car and he asked to search the car so I’m pretty sure he was trying too look for a weapon or a gun or something so we was like that’s fine because we weren’t doing anything wrong or illegal, we were just sitting there. So as he’s searching he goes into the glove box and finds a smaller size open bottle of vodka in there that I had know idea was there and my brother forgot was in the car, keep in mind we are both 19, so we got arrested under the charge of possession of alcohol as a minor for a local charge. So we payed bail that night of $75 each and had to get our car back which was towed to the pound for $800. So we had court today and I got really nervous because I don’t do a lot of public speaking and never got a charger before or been presented in front of a judge before. So he asked me if If I plead guilty or not guilty and I said not guilty and told him because I was unaware I was breaking the law because I didn’t know there was any alcohol in there and I was in the passenger seat so he told me it doesn’t matter and told me then proceeded to tell me about the law and I said ok so he entered my plea as “not guilty and there was a finding of guilty” and had me pay a fine of $25 to make it a total of $100 minimum fine including that $75 from bail. So we paid, got our paperwork, and left. I just think it’s really unfair of me to get charged for crime i didn’t know I was committing and to pay all these fees when I don’t even drink alcohol or was under any type of influence when arrested all because this lady saw two African Americans boys with hoodies on in there car on there phone. And now because I got charged I may not be able to receive financial aid for school. And never fully understood why people thought the system was broke for people like me till now. So after all this do you know of anything I could do? Can I appeal a conviction after a plea has already been done? Thanks in advance.