Section 10-919 - Admissibility of conviction for felonious killing in civil proceedings; effect of conviction(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.Amended by 2013 Md. Laws, Ch. 486,Sec. 1, eff. 10/1/2013.Amended by 2013 Md. Laws, Ch. 485,Sec. 1, eff. 10/1/2013.