Who is Being Served?

I am a Writer by craft and so, I am often concerned with social issues that affect the American proletariat. Heavily influenced by a charismatic and thought-provoking undergraduate College Professor, Barbara Martinsons, I have adopted the habit of asking myself 2 pertinent questions whenever I read, watch or listen to anything: "Who?" I ask myself, “Is being served by this," article, production, or broadcast. And, "what is the prevailing discourse being asserted, challenged or threatened here? When I employ this method I find that I more alert, more inquisitive and focused. This method dominated my thoughts this morning as I read The New York Times article informing New Yorkers that, in a 5-4 decision The United States Supreme Court ruled in favor of Alaska's decision to deny inmates access to DNA during post conviction (appellate) proceedings. Who is being served? Certainly not the average, everyday citizen who could find themselves in need of such an opportunity in order to be exonerated. “What” I wondered, “could the Supreme Court been thinking?” by upholding this seemingly un-American decision.The Majority asserted, in an opinion by Justice John G Roberto Jr. that, "The availability of new DNA testing . . . cannot mean that every criminal conviction or even every conviction involving biological evidence is suddenly in doubt." Why no, of course it isn't Justice Roberto. So what is it that Majority fears here? Clearly driven by this fear, He and the other 4 Justices who came to this decision which seems to be in direct opposition to the United States Constitution which should be the prevailing discourse in every instance concerning freedom in America, obviously do not serve The People, The Proletariat. By denying Alaska’s inmates access to evidence necessary to prove their own innocence then, the Supreme Court of The United States of America serve only age-old premises that upheld racist and barbaric ideologies which remain a stain on the fabric of our nation's image and dignity today.