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FBI cites NGI palm-print match as basis for OSBI award after 2012 Moore homicide leads to conviction
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The FBI presented its 2020 Biometric Identification Award to the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation after an NGI latent-palm-print match led investigators to identify, arrest and secure a conviction in a 2012 Moore, Oklahoma, homicide.
Unidentified Speaker 1 (Presenter) opened the award announcement by describing the FBI's Biometric Identification Award and its criteria, which recognize agencies that solved major cases using the Next Generation Identification system (NGI).
The FBI said the 2020 award was presented to the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, Oklahoma City, based on an NGI latent-print match that provided a new investigative lead in a 2012 Moore homicide. According to the presentation, Moore police were dispatched on April 9, 2012, to Northwest 12th and Sequoia, where officers found a white male deceased under a truck; investigators recovered latent palm prints from the vehicle but obtained no immediate match and the medical examiner could not determine the cause of death.
Unidentified Speaker 3 (Speaker) described a subsequent cold-case effort: two latent lift cards received from the Moore Police Department were entered into the FBI's unsolved latent file (ULF) in 2014 after initial automated searches were unsuccessful. The FBI presentation explained that the ULF is continuously checked against new biometric enrollments in NGI.
The presentation said that when the Plano Police Department later arrested an individual for assault and submitted his palm prints to NGI's National Palm Print System, the system produced an unsolved latent match notification to Oklahoma. Unidentified Speaker 3 recounted that his side-by-side comparisons produced two identifications linking the previously unidentified latent prints to Jason Lewis Lane Diamond.
According to Unidentified Speaker 4 (Speaker), in 2016 agents, working with the Texas Rangers, located and interviewed Diamond in Texas. During that interview, investigators learned Diamond and the victim's stepson had traveled from Texas to Moore that morning, become involved in a physical altercation, left the victim in the driveway and returned to Texas. Diamond was arrested and charged with first-degree manslaughter in Cleveland County, Oklahoma. The presentation states a jury found Diamond guilty, recommended a four-year sentence, and the judge imposed a four-year term.
The presentation included a call to action from the announcer: "Tap into the power of NGI," and provided FBI web resources and email addresses for agencies seeking more information about NGI services or to submit nominations for the Biometric Identification Award.
Notes on transcript correction: the transcript used the word "bridal" in reporting the courtroom stage of the case; this article corrects that to "trial" because the surrounding content and sentencing language indicate the intended meaning was the criminal trial stage.
