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.
Cal. Evid. Code § 1300
Judgments
Applied in 12 court decisions — leading case 13 Cal. 4th 313 - People v. Ray (1996)
Most recently applied in 171 Cal. App. 4th 381 - Cahoon v. Governing Board of Ventura Unified School District (February 2009)
Amended by Stats. 1982, Ch. 390, Sec. 2.
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