While civil cases tend to concern disagreements between two people, especially when one person accuses the other of wrongdoing, criminal cases involve individuals who have allegedly committed illegal acts. Fraudulent activity is major category, with embezzlement, extortion, forgery, and money laundering all common cases of criminal deception. While it comes as no surprise that murder and manslaughter, both voluntary and involuntary, are considered crime, there are numerous illegal acts that are non-fatal but still of equal weight; textbook examples include battery, domestic violence and spousal abuse, sexual assault, stalking, and mistreatment of minors (abuse, neglect, and pornography). The cultivation, manufacturing, distribution, trafficking, and possession of drugs such as cocaine, heroin, and marijuana are all criminal acts under New York law.
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