How to handle excess space in conditional bullets in Jekyll docs via liquid

I'm using Jekyll docs (theme: just-the-docs) and I'm trying to use liquid conditional statements to hide/unhide a bullet based on a site variable:

1. Bullet 1
  
1. Bullet 3
1. Bullet 4

This works as intended when the site.variable == "true". However, when the bullet is supposed to be hidden (site.variable == "false") an extra newline shows instead of the "Bullet 2" output, i.e. as below:

1. Bullet 1

2. Bullet 3
3. Bullet 4

Any idea how to avoid this extra newline - while at same time enabling the conditional display of Bullet 2?