The Moshannon Valley Processing Center, in Clearfield County, Pa., where Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam was taken after he was released from a state prison. Read more Max Marin / The Philadelphia Inquirer

by Chris Palmer Published Oct. 8, 2025, 2:16 p.m. ET

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam spent more than 40 years fighting to overturn his murder conviction.

Now that he’s succeeded, a decades-old drug case may get him deported.

Vedam was released from state prison last week after prosecutors in central Pennsylvania said they would not seek to re-try him in the 1980 shooting death of 19-year-old Thomas Kinser.

Kinser, of Boalsburg, Centre County, was shot in the head and his body was later found in a sinkhole outside State College. Police arrested Vedam, a high school classmate of Kins

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