The Emmy-winning star ofCharles S. Dutton, was convicted of manslaughter. In the late 1960s, Dutton was a teenager growing up in the rough McCulloh Homes housing project in Baltimore, Maryland. Visiting the old neighborhood in 2000, Dutton told the Washington Post, “All my buddies are dead, in the pen or strung out.” That was almost Dutton’s fate, too. He started using drugs, liked to fight, and dropped out of the seventh grade. Then, at age 16, he got into a fight with a man and stabbed the man repeatedly. “I killed a guy who nearly killed me,” he told the Washington Post. “I never did anything to anyone who wouldn’t have done the same to me. At first, I had no remorse. But then I used to wonder what the guy would look like if he was still living. Would he amount to something?”