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...that two of the four judges depicted in The Bench (pictured), a 1758 oil-on-canvas painting by the English artist William Hogarth, were half asleep in court?
...that before the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Jackson v. Indiana, an incompetent criminal defendant could be involuntarily confined indefinitely (as if given a life sentence) without a trial or a conviction?
...that before becoming the Judge Advocate General of the United States Navy, Thomas Leigh Gatch was awarded two Navy Crosses?

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