Albert Ian Schweitzer was convicted in 2000 of the 1991 murder of Dana Ireland, a 23-year-old tourist from Virginia. On Tuesday new DNA evidence proved he was not guilty.
"Whenever you have a White, female victim . it gets a lot more attention than people of color and Native Hawaiians," said the co-director of the Hawaii Innocence Project.
Attorneys with the Hawaii Innocence Project and New York Innocence Project say that based on the new evidence, including advanced DNA technology, a prosecutor would likely not even arrest Albert “Ian” Schweitzer for the murder of Dana Ireland.