right to an attorney

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   a civil right guaranteed by the 6th amendment to the US Constitution

   Broadercivil right

   law

Questions about right to an attorney

What does right to an attorney mean?

right to an attorney means "a civil right guaranteed by the 6th amendment to the US Constitution".

Is right to an attorney a common word?

right to an attorney is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.