diff --git a/run_pretrained_openfold.py b/run_pretrained_openfold.py
index eb4ad7c0..e4fd6ad4 100644
--- a/run_pretrained_openfold.py
+++ b/run_pretrained_openfold.py
@@ -185,12 +185,7 @@ def main(args):
         use_deepspeed_evoformer_attention=args.use_deepspeed_evoformer_attention,
         )
 
-    if args.experiment_config_json: 
-        with open(args.experiment_config_json, 'r') as f:
-            custom_config_dict = json.load(f)
-        config.update_from_flattened_dict(custom_config_dict)
-
-    if args.experiment_config_json: 
+    if args.experiment_config_json:
         with open(args.experiment_config_json, 'r') as f:
             custom_config_dict = json.load(f)
         config.update_from_flattened_dict(custom_config_dict)