Ricky Walters, a 43-year-old hip-hop pioneer known for the rap classic "
The Great Adventures of Slick Rick" and was convicted of attempted murder in 1991, has received a full pardon from Gov.
David A. Paterson. The governor said in a statement that he decided to pardon Mr. Walters, who was released from prison in 1997, to prevent him from being deported to Britain, where Mr. Walters was born and lived until the age of 11.
