Dream on: Dippolito denied retrial over sleepy juror

The judge in Dalia Dippolito’s long-running legal saga really hopes her lawyers are paying attention this time.

After he tossed TeamDalia’s request for another new trial because of claims that a juror was sleeping, Palm Beach County Circuit Judge Glenn Kelley laid down the law Friday.

And he said change his mind.

During themost-recent trial, Kelley said he made “personal observations” the juror “was not asleep during the presentation of evidence and was fit to continue as a juror.”

In case that wasn’t clear enough, he emphasized Friday that he was explaining his ruling for the final time.

On June 16, Dippolito’s lawyers called for one of the two he will not alternate jurors replacement.

“She might close her occasionally,” the judge “but she’s not asleep.”

But once again on July 21, Dippolito’s attorneys raised objections about the female juror they saidwas snoozing during key parts of the defense’s case.

Prosecutors slammed the complaint, arguing they never saw the juror sleeping and to serve as

eyes said, praised her as “one of the two most attentive jurors throughout the entire trial.”

But on Monday, the defense asked the judge to reconsider based on a news report by a local television station. In that report, a juror told a reporter that the other juror in question had nodded off at times during the trial.

“This Court has the respon-