Detailed Instructions: In this task, you will be shown a sentence, and you should determine whether it is overruling or non-overruling. In law, an overruling sentence is a statement that nullifies a previous case decision as a precedent by a constitutionally valid statute or a decision by the same or higher ranking court which establishes a different rule on the point of law involved. Classify your answers into overruling or non-overruling
Problem:third, floyd argues that, in refusing to find his substance abuse to be a mitigating circumstance, the trial court improperly required a causal connection between his substance abuse and the murder.
Solution:
non-overruling