On October 4th, my fellow “Lemonistas” and I were scheduled to appear in a Washington DC court, and enter our plea for our criminal charges over an “illegal” lemonade stand. The first charge of “vending without a permit” was to be addressed in courtroom #115 at 8:30am. We entered the courtroom, and were instructed to sit on the right side of the room, along with the dozens of others facing charges. A man stood up front and began reading off names, instructing us to move to the left side of the room when our name was called. Once he finished moving almost half of us to the left, he announced that “the government has decided not to prosecute your cases.” We were handed some paper work [see images 1 & 2], then told we could leave.
