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concluding that the malicious prosecution judgment against Elisabeth "necessarily included a finding that [Elisabeth] wilfully and maliciously sought to injure." Thus, that judgment collaterally estopped relitigation of the issue of whether the judgment resulted from willful and malicious conduct, and the Bankruptcy Code excepts from debts dischargeable in bankruptcy any debt "for willful and malicious injury by the debtor to another entity or the property of another entity." 11 U.S.C. § 523