"You don't have a lot of time to work up a tactical plan and notify the officers," Zine said.
Also Thursday, an attorney for Debbie Rowe, the mother of Michael Jackson's two elder children, said she had not decided whether to seek custody, despite telling a television reporter that was her intention.
Eric George, Rowe's lawyer, did not dispute that Rowe told an NBC-TV Channel 4 reporter by telephone that she wanted custody of Prince Michael Jr., 12, and Paris Michael Katherine, 11, the children she bore when she was married to Jackson.
But her lawyer said it would be a "distortion of the truth" to interpret Rowe's comments to the television reporter as her final decision in the custody case.
He described the custody proceedings as "the most private and the most sensitive of matters as they impact the lives and fates of young children."
As the biological parent, Rowe, 50, would be in line to obtain the children unless a judge determined that would not be in their best interests.
Rowe appears to have had little contact with the children over the years, though she does have visitation rights.
Katherine Jackson has temporary custody of the children. A custody hearing scheduled for Monday has been postponed until July 13 at the request of attorneys for Katherine Jackson and Rowe.
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Dolan reported from San Francisco. Times staff writers Andrew Blankstein, Cara Mia DiMassa, Maeve Reston and Harriet Ryan contributed to this report.
