Slick Rick ruling overturned

Rapper Slick Rick, imprisoned in Florida for 17 months as the Immigration and Naturalization Service sought to deport him to his native England, apparently will be released soon, his representatives say.

A ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Kimba M. Wood overturned the deportation decision regarding the singer, whose real name is Ricky Walters, and reinstated a 1995 waiver of the law that requires aliens who commit felonies in America to be sent home. Walters, 38, had been convicted of attempted murder in 1991 but after a prison term resettled in the Bronx, bought two apartment buildings and resumed his singing career.