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2015 California Code
Evidence Code - EVID
DIVISION 10 - HEARSAY EVIDENCE
CHAPTER 2 - Exceptions to the Hearsay Rule
ARTICLE 10 - Judgments
Section 1300.

CA Ev Code § 1300 through (2015) Leg Sess What's This?

1300. Evidence of a final judgment adjudging a person guilty of a crime punishable as a felony is not made inadmissible by the hearsay rule when offered in a civil action to prove any fact essential to the judgment whether or not the judgment was based on a plea of nolo contendere.

(Amended by Stats. 1982, Ch. 390, Sec. 2.)

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