| Cruz v. Beto | ||||||
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| Decided March 20, 1972 | ||||||
| Full case name | Cruz v. Beto, Corrections Director | |||||
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| Cruz cannot be denied a reasonable opportunity of pursuing his faith comparable to the opportunity afforded fellow prisoners who adhere to conventional religious precepts. Texas has violated the First and Fourteenth Amendments. | ||||||
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Cruz v. Beto, 405 U.S. 319 (1972) is a U.S. Supreme Court case in which the court upheld a Free Exercise claim on the basis of the allegations that the state of Texas had discriminated against a Buddhist prisoner by "denying him a reasonable opportunity to pursue his Buddhist faith comparable to that offered other prisoners adhering to conventional religious precepts." Cruz was denied his first amendment right and his fourteenth amendment right