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Sources say that Maître-Créche's unusually stiff sentence resulted from a legal ploy that backfired.
A last ditch defense effort to portray MaîtreCrèche as a peasant ignorant of France's tough laws on the use of such expressions backfired when the prosecution unveiled a book found in the defendant's office entitled 108 Franglaish Expressions That Can Get You Put in Jail If You Use Them In This Country.
Corollary: The "circuit breakers," which suspended trading, backfired.
The case against that idealism is that it didn't happen-that big government solutions failed or backfired, that the War on Poverty was lost, and that the racial equality that liberals promised in law remained frustrated by cultural and economic factors they had thought government could easily overcome.
backfired.