{"data":{"id":"us-ca/evid-1300","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"EVID § 1300","heading":"","body":"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.","path":["Evidence Code - EVID","DIVISION 10. HEARSAY EVIDENCE [1200. - 1390.]","CHAPTER 2. Exceptions to the Hearsay Rule [1220. - 1390.]","ARTICLE 10. Judgments [1300. - 1302.]"],"source_url":"https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zip","current_through":"2026-09-13","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T05:56:33Z","sha256":"646db054c14d9df0b4969903e5831d4d2f9ec24bf73e027fa94347e71eac2cee","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/evid-1294","next":"us-ca/evid-1301"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}