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2018 Maryland Code
Courts and Judicial Proceedings
Title 10 - Evidence
Subtitle 9 - Miscellaneous Rules
§ 10-919. Admissibility of conviction for felonious killing in civil proceedings; effect of conviction
Universal Citation: MD Cts & Jud Pro Code § 10-919 (2018)
(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.
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