Cruz v. Beto
| Cruz v. Beto | |
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| Decided March 20, 1972 | |
| Full case name | Cruz v. Beto, Corrections Director |
| Citations | 405 U.S. 319 (more) 92 S. Ct. 1079; 31 L. Ed. 2d 263 |
| Holding | |
| 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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| Per curiam | |
| Concurrence | Burger |
| Concurrence | Blackmun |
| Dissent | Rehnquist |
Cruz v. Beto, 405 U.S. 319 (1972), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the court upheld a Free Exercise claim based on 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."