{"data":{"id":"us-md/md.-code-courts-and-judicial-proceedings-10-919","jurisdiction":"us-md","citation":"Md. Code, Courts and Judicial Proceedings § 10–919","heading":"","body":"(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:\n(1) Is admissible in a civil proceeding in which the common law Slayer’s Rule is raised as an issue; and\n(2) Conclusively establishes that the convicted individual feloniously and intentionally killed the decedent.\n(b) 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.","path":["Article - Courts and Judicial Proceedings"],"source_url":"https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Laws/StatuteText?article=gcj\u0026section=10-919","current_through":"2026-01-01","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T19:57:03Z","sha256":"a2a262e13642426091af8512a239db3398f741228cd942201ebcab19f5d29c13","source_id":"us-md","stale":false,"prev":"us-md/md.-code-courts-and-judicial-proceedings-10-918","next":"us-md/md.-code-courts-and-judicial-proceedings-10-920"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}