This article is the second in a three-part series focusing on how legal technology companies are working with various innocence organizations and making their tools available to help exonerate wrongfully convicted individuals. You can read Part 1 and Part 3 here.

On January 24, 2023, in a major development in one of Hawaii’s most high-profile murder cases, a Hilo judge vacated the conviction of Ian Schweitzer for the rape and murder of Dana Ireland. Schweitzer had been serving a life sentence for the crime since 2000.