§ 10-919. Admissibility of conviction for felonious killing in civil proceedings; effect of conviction

MD Cts & Jud Pro Code § 10-919 (2019) (N/A)
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(a)    After all right to appeal has been exhausted, a judgment of conviction establishing criminal accountability for the felonious and intentional killing of a decedent:

(1)    Is admissible in a civil proceeding in which the common law Slayer’s Rule is raised as an issue; and

(2)    Conclusively establishes that the convicted individual feloniously and intentionally killed the decedent.

(b)    This section may not be construed to prohibit a trier of fact, in the absence of a criminal conviction, from determining by a preponderance of the evidence in a civil proceeding that a killing was felonious and intentional.