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...that the odds of Sir John Eardley Wilmot (pictured), an eminent judge, also having an eminent grandson were calculated in Galton's book Hereditary Genius as 30 to 1 against?
...that in Sell v. United States, the Supreme Court decided a dentist was unconstitutionally jailed for eight years without trial for refusing to be medicated with psychiatric drugs?
...that the police officer who illegally shot Nathaniel Levi Gaines in 1996 became the third officer from the New York City Police Department to be sentenced for committing a crime while on active duty?

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