Maryland Courts and Judicial Proceedings Section 10-919

      (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 subsequent 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 court, 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.