Joyner v. United States

Joyner v. United States
Joyner v. United States
	Supreme Court of the United States
Argued November 11, 2020; Decided December 24, 2020
Full case name	Alex Joyner v. United States of America
Docket no.	20-21
Citations	20-21 M.S.Ct. 1
Argument	Oral argument
Opinion announcement	Opinion announcement
Case history
Prior	Defendant convicted (S.D. Ga. 2020); summ. aff'd (Dix. Cir. 2020)
Holding
	There is no privacy interest in a mugshot and a publicity photo openly shared on the Internet. United States Court of Appeals for the Dixie Circuit affirmed.
Court membership
	Chief Justice; SHOCKULAR; Associate Justices ; JJEagleHawk · CuriositySMBC · Joseph Ibney · Dobs · BSDDC · Dewey Cheatem
Case opinions
Majority	JJEagleHawk (Parts I-III, IV-A, IV-B, IV-C and V), joined by SHOCKULAR, CuriositySMBC and BSDDC
Plurality	JJEagleHawk (Part IV-D), joined by SHOCKULAR and CuriositySMBC
Concurrence	SHOCKULAR, joined by JJEagleHawk and CuriositySMBC
Concurrence	CuriositySMBC
Concurrence	BSDDC, joined by Ibney and Cheatem
Concurrence	Cheatem, joined by BSDDC (in part) and Ibney
Concur/dissent	Dobs
Laws applied
	U.S. Const. amend. IV

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 majority of the 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.

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