Wrongfully imprisoned Hawaiian man freed after over 20 years behind bars

Albert ‘Ian’ Schweitzer was convicted for the 1991 murder of Dana Ireland, a white female tourist

A native Hawaiian man who was wrongfully imprisoned for killing a white female tourist in 1991 has finally been freed after spending more than 20 years behind bars.

On Tuesday, Hawaii’s circuit court judge Peter Kubota ordered 51-year old Albert “Ian” Schweitzer to be “released from his shackles immediately” following additional evidence presented by Schweitzer’s attorneys in a new petition filed on Monday.