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California Evidence Code

§ 1300

EVID § 1300Div. 10 · Ch. 2 · Art. 10

Statute text

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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.

Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 1982, Ch. 390, Sec. 2.

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