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Joe #2 **Burnsville Killing**​

Original story from //The Pioneer Press:// [|Eagan man cleared in Burnsville slaying]

I found this story on //The Pioneer Pioneer Press//, which [|I believe could have a sensationalism bias]. I chose this story because when I saw the title of it I felt sad and angry at the same time and it made me wonder who would do something like this. Another reason I thought that it was interesting was because it was in a city not to far from Cottage Grove.

Even though I think that //The Pioneer Press// has a sensational bias, I do not think that they use it in this story because if they did I would think that they would have maybe used more emotional or sophisticated words to make it sound more important than it really is. Too me the tone of the writer was almost the same throughout the story. He made a few changes in tone by adding some emotional words used where he wanted to add some emphasis. I think that the tone of the writer was really calm and sounded as if he was not interested in the entire story. It seemed as if he only used basic everyday words with the occasional emotional words like //fatally stabbed, beckoned,// and //slashed//.

I think that //Kare 11// should have put in a picture of Pass where he looked normal. Even though the jury found him not guilty of killing SanRoman, they included a picture of [|Pass] where he looked like he was a killer.

Another part of the story that caused more wonder was the DNA test report: according to //[|The Pioneer Press]// "Pass' DNA was not found on those items or on a sample taken from a knife handle found at the scene. Instead, Al-Refo's blood coated the knife blade and its handle, and SanRoman's DNA was found on the handle." After reading about the DNA evidence, my opinion is that Pass should be found innocent and Al-Refo should be found guilty of killing SanRoman. [|Brutal images]