Two separate US courts have issued a stay of deportation for Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam , a 64-year-old legal permanent resident of Indian origin, who had spent 43 years in prison for a murder conviction that was recently overturned.

Vedam, who came to the US as an infant, was released from state prison on October 3 but was immediately taken into the custody of the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement ( ICE ).

The Injustice Compounded

Vedam’s murder conviction for the 1980 death of a friend was thrown out earlier this year after new evidence revealed prosecutors had withheld an FBI report that contradicted key ballistics testimony. Despite his exoneration, ICE moved to deport him based on a decades-old no-contest plea to LSD delivery charges filed when he was about 20.

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