diff --git a/src/gt4py/cartesian/gtc/dace/nodes.py b/src/gt4py/cartesian/gtc/dace/nodes.py
index 176d1d4b65..926265b2c7 100644
--- a/src/gt4py/cartesian/gtc/dace/nodes.py
+++ b/src/gt4py/cartesian/gtc/dace/nodes.py
@@ -59,8 +59,8 @@ def from_json(cls, d, sdfg=None):
             b64string = d["pickle"]
             byte_repr = base64.b64decode(b64string)
             return pickle.loads(byte_repr)
-        else:
-            return d
+
+        return d
 
 
 class PickledDataclassProperty(PickledProperty, dace.properties.DataclassProperty):