India, Oct. 14 -- Subramanyam 'Subu' Vedam, 64, has spent much of his adult life in prison for a crime he did not commit. When he was a 20-year-old student at State College, Pennsylvania, Vedam was wrongfully convicted for the murder of his friend and sentenced to life without parole.

Now, 43, years later, he is a free man - but Vedam's troubles are far from over. He now faces deportation to India - a country he left when he was just nine months old.

On the morning of October 3, Subramanyam Vedam walked out of Huntingdon State Correctional Institution, the Pennsylvania prison where he had spent the last 43 years.

The Indian-origin man was freed after a court found that prosecutors had concealed evidence that would have dismantled the c...