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Casey Anthony deposed in defamation suit

ORLANDO, Fla., Oct. 8 (UPI) -- A lawyer in a Florida defamation suit against Casey Anthony said after her deposition Saturday he will ask a judge to "compel her to answer these questions."

Anthony, wearing a baseball cap, big sunglasses and what the lawyer, John Morgan, said looked like a wig, was questioned by video link from an undisclosed location, the Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel reported. Morgan represents Zenaida Fernandez Gonzalez, who is suing Anthony for defamation.

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Anthony has been reclusive since she was acquitted in July of charges including first-degree murder in the death of her 2-year-old daughter Caylee. During the investigation into Caylee's disappearance, Anthony told police her daughter had been abducted by a nanny named Zenaida Fernandez Gonzalez.

The plaintiff in the defamation suit says investigators subsequently sought her out, the newspaper said. Morgan said the episode is "a scar on (his client's) life and on her soul probably until the day she dies."

Morgan said Anthony, during the video deposition, answered questions such as whether she had attended her trial, but more specific inquiries prompted her lawyer, Charles Greene, to invoke her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.

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Morgan said he would file a motion asking a judge to compel testimony.

"We asked enough questions and got her to invoke the Fifth enough times that we feel we got enough to take a motion to the judge to compel her to answer these questions," he said.

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