§ 10-919
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§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 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 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.