Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun right_to_an_attorney

1 sense of right to an attorney

Sense 1
right to an attorney -- (a civil right guaranteed by the 6th amendment to the US Constitution)
       => civil right -- (right or rights belonging to a person by reason of citizenship including especially the fundamental freedoms and privileges guaranteed by the 13th and 14th amendments and subsequent acts of Congress including the right to legal and social and economic equality)