OAN Staff Jenna Lee
1:28 PM – Thursday, April 30, 2026
The Jackson County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office has officially dismissed the case against Morgan Morrow, a West Virginia library worker previously charged for purportedly posting a social media threat against President Donald Trump.
On April 16th, prosecutors filed a motion to dismiss the charges without prejudice, citing significant procedural errors during the investigative process.
Specifically, the filing revealed that Morrow was not properly Mirandized (given her Miranda rights) during her interrogation — a failure that fundamentally compromised the legal standing of the evidence obtained and led to the termination of the current proceedings.
“This case has been dismissed. We feel it never should have been brought in the first place,” declared Morrow’s attorney Mark Atkinson in a statement to Fox News.
According to reporting from WOWK, a criminal complaint filed in January detailed a TikTok post originating from Morrow’s account that appeared to openly solicit political violence.
The post featured a caption stating, “Surely a sn!per [sniper] with a terminal illness can’t be a big ask out of 343 million,” a statement investigators interpreted as a veiled threat directed at the president.
This specific social media activity formed the primary basis for the initial charges before the case was ultimately dismissed due to the mishandling of Morrow’s constitutional rights during questioning.
Morrow was then arrested and later interrogated.
“Following a detailed evening investigation by deputies and the Jackson County Bureau of Investigations, Morgan L. Morrow, age 39 of Ripley, has been detained, arrested, and transported to SCRJ following a social media recruitment of individuals to pursue and assassinate President Trump,” declared the Jackson County Sheriff’s Department in a January Facebook post.
During the subsequent investigation, Morrow reportedly admitted to authorities that she authored and published the statement on TikTok, further admitting that the post was indeed intended as a threat toward Trump.
However, this confession was ultimately rendered inadmissible when the prosecution’s motion to dismiss revealed that investigators failed to properly read Morrow her Miranda rights.
Since she was not informed of her Constitutional right to remain silent or her right to counsel during the interrogation, the prosecutor acknowledged that the self-incriminating statements could not be used to sustain the case.
“The prosecutor has made the judgment call that the statement that was given during the investigation by the defendant was not properly administered under our Miranda Rights,” stated John Mitchell Jr., a Charleston criminal defense attorney.
Additionally, since West Virginia has no statute of limitations for felonies, charges dismissed without prejudice can be refiled. However, the county prosecutor may have to proceed without security footage.
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