** FILE ** Jeffrey Bly, 24, is shown in this file photo taken Tuesday, May 11, 1999, during opening arguments at his murder trial in Suffolk Superior Court in Boston. Bly was subsequently convicted in the 1995 killing of Paul McLaughlin, an assistant attorney general who was on special assignment as a gang prosecutor for the Suffolk County district attorney's office. The highest court in Massachusetts on Wednesday, March 7, 2007, upheld the conviction. Bly who had appealed his conviction on eight different grounds. (AP Photo/Patricia McDonnell)