He spent over 40 years in prison before his murder conviction was overturned. An immigration judge just denied him bond
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After losing four decades of his life serving time for a murder he maintains he did not commit, a gray-haired Subramanyam "Subu" Vedam prepared to step out of a Pennsylvania prison last October as a free man.
Instead, a day after his charges were dropped, Vedam was swept up by ICE on a decades-old deportation order, his attorney said. The 64-year-old, who came to the US from India when he was an infant, was suddenly thrown into another painstaking legal battle.
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