> if a defendant says some magic phrase they fall under the constitution's protection, otherwise they're in trouble This is not true. Every US citizen is prot

> if a defendant says some magic phrase they fall under the constitution's protection, otherwise they're in trouble This is not true. Every US citizen is protected by the constitution, all the time, and has the right to a lawyer, no matter what. The "magic" in that phrase is that if you try to exercise your right to a lawyer, and the cops refuse, and in so doing break the law and defy the constitution, saying the magic phrase means that they are more likely to get in trouble for doing so.