Caylee Anthony Update 27 March

The attorney for Casey Anthony in her civil case this week filed paperwork, saying the 23-year-old mother should not have to answer questions while her criminal case is pending.

Every question proposed is "inextricably intertwined" with her first-degree murder case, wrote Fort Lauderdale-based attorney Jonathan Kasen in the four-page document.

Casey Anthony invoked her Fifth Amendment right to remain silent through nearly all the 29 written questions posed in the defamation case.

Lawyers for Zenaida Gonzalez, the Kissimmee woman suing Casey Anthony, want Orange Circuit Court Judge Jose R. Rodriguez to force Casey Anthony to answer the questions. They issued the written questions earlier this year.

Gonzalez is suing Anthony for more than $15,000 in damages. She claims she lost her job and suffered humiliation and public embarrassment after Anthony told investigators that a baby sitter by the same name took her 2-year-old child, Caylee Marie.

The toddler's remains were found six months later in December in a wooded area near Casey Anthony's family home. Kasen wrote in the motion filed Wednesday that Casey Anthony told detectives that Gonzalez the one suing her is not the baby sitter. Detectives showed her a picture of Gonzalez and Casey Anthony reported that she had never "seen that lady in her life."

Casey Anthony described the baby sitter as being around 24 years old and having no children. Gonzalez the one suing her is a 38-year-old mother of six.

Gonzalez's attorneys haven't questioned the detectives a move they should have done before attempting to question Casey Anthony, Kasen wrote.

And, Casey Anthony's brother, Lee Anthony, who was questioned by attorneys under oath, said Gonzalez the one involved in the lawsuit is not the woman described by his sister.

Kasen is asking the judge to stop Gonzalez's attorneys from getting the questions answered while the criminal case is pending. No hearing date has been set.

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