diff --git a/src/frontend/org/voltdb/iv2/DuplicateCounter.java b/src/frontend/org/voltdb/iv2/DuplicateCounter.java
index <HASH>..<HASH> 100644
--- a/src/frontend/org/voltdb/iv2/DuplicateCounter.java
+++ b/src/frontend/org/voltdb/iv2/DuplicateCounter.java
@@ -116,12 +116,9 @@ public class DuplicateCounter
         ClientResponseImpl r = message.getClientResponseData();
         // get the hash of sql run
         long hash = 0;
-        // A mispartitioned transaction has no response in the message
-        if (r != null) {
-            Integer sqlHash = r.getHash();
-            if (sqlHash != null) {
-                hash = sqlHash.intValue();
-            }
+        Integer sqlHash = r.getHash();
+        if (sqlHash != null) {
+            hash = sqlHash.intValue();
         }
         return checkCommon(hash, message.isRecovering(), message);
     }
Remove redundant DuplicateCounter code that expects some old behavior.