Sherman_Austin Sherman Martin Austin (born April 10, 1983) is an American anarchist and musician who was arrested as a teenager for inflammatory content on his website and subsequently convicted. He was the first person to be successfully prosecuted under 18 U.S.C. 842(p), a United States federal law which makes the distribution of information on explosives unlawful if the information is provided with the knowledge or intent that the information will be used to commit a violent federal crime.