An eight year investigation into systemic corruption in Chicago’s legal system, centering on wrongful convictions tied to retired Detective Reynaldo Guevara, whose decades of misconduct left a trail of incarcerated men still fighting to prove their innocence.
TO CATCH A CASE follows several men fighting to prove their innocence alongside Bill Dorsch, a former Chicago homicide detective who now investigates wrongful convictions after witnessing years of misconduct on the force. The film centers on the case of Juan and Rosendo Hernandez, framed by Detective Reynaldo Guevara, and traces a web of police abuse and prosecutorial complicity. Through courtroom battles, intimate interviews, and archival footage, the film reveals how 54 overturned murder convictions could cost Chicago up to $1 billion—and the human toll behind those numbers.
Margaret Byrne, Director / Producer, has worked in documentary film for over fifteen years. She was a cinematographer and an additional editor on Emmy nominated American Promise (2013), a thirteen-year project following the education of two African American boys from New York City, and Slaying Goliath (2009), a feature documentary following an inner city youth basketball team. Margaret produced and edited a music documentary series which launched MTV across Africa in 2005. She was previously a Creative Director at Universal Music. She is the founder of Beti Films.
