# Courts and Judicial Proceedings (GCJ)

## Title 10. Evidence

### Subtitle 9. Miscellaneous Rules

#### 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 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.

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Md. Code Ann., Cts. & Jud. Proc. (as displayed at mgaleg.maryland.gov, October 16, 2026)