Actually he did NOT tell him not to follow. The comment was “We don’t need you to do that”
Z has ADHD people with that disorder often take comments literally so when she suggest he keep an eye on T he followed what he interpreted to be her instructions
Brilliant—Mr. Root (as a former police officer) reached out to the defense team as an interested citizen. Defense laid the ground to the jury that the court has disallowed this man’s testimony related to anything relevant to these proceedings. Simply brilliant!
You are absolutely correct about the exact wording. And, GZ complied with that request, since the remainder of the transcript shows no indication of it, and in fact shows that he was afraid to give his house number for fear that TM, whom Zim had lost track of, would overhear his address.
Now a bazillion people have autism, too.