Joyner v. United States

Joyner v. United States, 20-21 M.S.Ct. 1 (2020), was a decision of the United States Supreme Court on December 24, 2020, that pertained to use of a facial recognition system by law enforcement to positively identify Alex Joyner, a suspect in a homicide case whose face had been captured by cameras leaving the scene of the crime. A divided court affirmed Joyner's conviction, finding that he had no reasonable expectation of privacy in the specific images used by the facial recognition algorithm to identify him, but the heavily divided court disagreed on several other aspects of the judgment and issued an unprecedented seven opinions.