Civil rights advocates are calling for the immediate release of Subramanyam "Subu" Vedam, a Pennsylvania man who has been exonerated after spending more than four decades in prison but remains in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody due to a decades-old deportation order.
Vedam, 64, walked out of Huntingdon State Correctional Institution on Oct. 3 after spending 43 years behind bars for a 1980 murder that the courts now say he did not commit. His conviction was vacated after a judge ruled that prosecutors had withheld evidence undermining the state's case, and the Centre County district attorney dismissed all charges.
