A man who spent 43 years in prison before his conviction was overturned now faces deportation

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After 43 years behind bars for a murder conviction overturned in August, Subramanyam Vedam was detained by ICE upon his October prison release.

The 64-year-old legal immigrant from India earned multiple degrees while wrongly incarcerated but faces deportation over a 1980s drug conviction.

Under the Trump administration’s mass deportation agenda, his lawyers argue decades of wrongful imprisonment should outweigh the decades-old drug charge.

PHILADELPHIA — After waiting more than four decades to clear his name in a friend’s 1980 killing, Subramanyam Vedam was set to walk free from a Pennsylvania prison this month.

Vedam and Thomas Kinser were the 19-year-old children of Penn Stat