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State RFC: fix block height contextual validation

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@ -559,8 +559,9 @@ New `non-finalized` blocks are commited as follows:
self.queued_blocks.dequeue_children(parent);`
- for each queued `block`
- **Run contextual validation** on `block`
- contextual validation will reject blocks that are past the reorg limit,
because the finalized block at that height is already known.
- contextual validation should check that the block height is
equal to the previous block height plus 1. This check will
reject blocks with invalid heights.
- If the block fails contextual validation send the result to the
associated channel
- Else if the block's previous hash is the finalized tip add to the