[citation needed] Sherzer won against many grandmasters in his chess career including victory versus Viswanathan Anand in Philadelphia, 1987.
Through the introduction of a family friend and notable Washington DC attorney Julius Kaplan, Sherzer became an unwitting participant in an hysterical effort to bring Bobby Fischer, then an emigre, legally back to the United States.
Kaplan succeeded in brokering a potential deal with the US State Department, though Fischer's racism and erratic demands prevented its fruition.
[1] In May 2003, while driving to Shreveport, Louisiana to begin a hospital internship, he was arrested in Mobile, Alabama for allegedly attempting to solicit sex from a 15-year-old-girl he met on the Internet.
[3][4][5] Although the prosecution managed to suppress over ninety percent of the evidence in Sherzer's favor, the jury produced a full acquittal.