The latest fundraiser for West Seattle-raised Amanda Knox:

Music For Amanda Showbox at the Market, downtown Seattle

The Amanda Defense Fund will benefit from this live concert featuring three local rock bands, Brian DiJulio and the Love Jacks, Zero Gravity Circus, and The G Program. The event will take place at the Showbox at the Market on July 8, and will also include small silent and live auctions. All three bands feature members who are either alumni or connected to alumni of Seattle Prep, Amanda Knox's alma mater. Recently added, special guest Tony Montana from legendary grammy winning '80s rock band, Great White! Tony will join the Love Jacks and play a couple songs from TWICE SHY, and some Zeppelin covers.

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"Failure to Protect Amanda Knox’ Rights" Decried in Letter to Obama

A letter was written and sent to President Obama and all members of the Senate and House of Representatives that brings into question the involvement, or lack of involvement, of the American Embassy's consular officials in Rome during what the letter's authors believe was ill treatment of Knox preceding the murder trial of Meredith Kercher, the British college roommate of Amanda Knox in Perugia, Italy.

The letter was written by West Seattle Judge Michael Heavey, acting in his own personal capacity, Friends of Amanda organizer Thomas Wright, high-profile Seattle attorney Anne Bremner who is not working on the case but has reported on it for over three years, and East Sider Mark Waterbury, a scientist who blogs about the case and authored The Monster of Perugia: The Framing of Amanda Knox.

"The issues are that the our employees, Counselor officials in Rome, didn't do the right things for Amanda Knox," Judge Heavey told the West Seattle Herald. "Maybe the next American citizen will have their rights ignored."

According to the press release written by the four authors, "The Friends of Amanda Knox have written to President Barack Obama expressing their concern about the failure of consular officials to protect the rights of American citizen, Amanda Knox, convicted in Perugia, Italy, of murdering her British roommate and sentenced to 26 years in prison.

"The letter sent to Obama on May 16, 2011 indicates seven areas in which Italian or EU law was violated by prosecutors and police in Perugia, Italy. Yet, the letter cites repeated assertions by State Department spokespersons that it was their obligation to safeguard those same rights."

The letter calls for an investigation of the failure of the U.S. Consulate offices in Italy to take actions in support of Amanda Knox. That letter was copied to, and followed up with, a second letter dated May 20, 2011 and sent to more than 500 members of congress, and to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

This action comes only a few weeks after a letter written by the Committee to Protect Journalists to the President of Italy protesting actions of the same Perugian prosecutor regarding the treatment of reporters covering the case. The West Seattle Herald was cited and quoted in the CPJ letter. The CPJ investigation claimed that Perugian prosecutors and police used threats, criminal charges, and physical beatings to intimidate reporters covering the case. The prosecutor in the case recently obtained a court order forcing Google to take down a blog written by a critical local journalist.

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Head prosecutor puzzles with responses

In an interview with Bob Graham in the SUN tabloid, Head Prosecutor Giuliano Mignini said about Knox's nearly 52 hours of intense police interrogation was "half fact, half fiction."

From the Sun: "The Sun asked him to explain why there was no Knox DNA in the small bedroom where Meredith was killed. He shrugged and produced his latest bizarre theory - that Knox wasn't in the room at all, but orchestrated the killing from outside.

Also this: "Mignini said: 'Amanda might theoretically have instigated the murder while even staying in the other room." Until now Mignini has been adamant Knox was the instigator and the most violent of those involved in the horrific killing.'

"At the end of our interview, Mignini smirked and asked that details of what he said 'remain here' - in his office."

Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3592844/THE-Suns-probe-into-A…