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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