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EVANSTON, Ill., May 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Por Adela, a smart fleet management startup, is the winning team at VentureCat, Northwestern University s annual student startup competition powered by the Levy Institute for Entrepreneurial Practice and co-sponsored by Lanny and Sharon Martin. The top 25 semifinalist teams competed for more than $300,000 in non-dilutive prize money on May 26, 2021.
VentureCat hosted 30 distinguished venture capitalists, entrepreneurs and industry experts as judges from Boston to Denver to Silicon Valley to evaluate startups from five industry tracks: Business Products and Services, Consumer Products and Services, Energy and Sustainability, Life Sciences and Medical Innovations, and Social Impact. The winner of each track in the semifinals, and one wildcard team, competed for the finals prizes:
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Justices Limit New Trials For Non-Unanimous Convictions By
Jimmy Hoover | May 17, 2021, 10:36 AM EDT The U.S. Supreme Court said on Monday that defendants whose appeals have run out cannot take advantage of last term s ruling that convictions by non-unanimous juries are unconstitutional, denying automatic new trials for potentially thousands of prisoners in Louisiana and Oregon convicted under what the justices said were racist schemes.
Last year in Ramos v. Louisiana, the Supreme Court held that the Sixth Amendment s requirement of unanimous juries applies to the states as well. The ruling overturned precedent allowing Louisiana and Oregon to continue convicting people of serious crimes without the votes of all jurors, while describing how those jury schemes had origins in racist efforts to dilute the holdout votes of minority jurors.
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