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

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   (a) In general. -- 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) Construction of section. -- 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.

HISTORY: 1998, chs. 335, 336; 2013, ch. 43, § 5; chs. 485, 486.

                    
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