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In the 1999 case of Keith Russell Judd v. United States District Court for the Western District of Texas et al., Keith Russell Judd, a prisoner serving time in Texas, filed a lawsuit against the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas and other parties involved in his conviction. He claimed that he was denied due process rights during his trial because he was not allowed to represent himself and that there were errors made by his court-appointed attorney which led to an unfair trial. The Supreme Court dismissed these claims as meritless without providing detailed reasoning or issuing an opinion on record (as is often done when cases are summarily dismissed). This decision effectively upheld Judd's original conviction and sentence.
The dissenting opinion in the case of Keith Russell Judd v. United States District Court for the Western District of Texas et al., 1999, is not available or recorded publicly. The Supreme Court does not always publish a written dissent for every case, particularly when it comes to decisions regarding procedural matters or cases that are dismissed without a full hearing. It's also possible that all justices agreed on the decision and thus there was no dissenting opinion at all.