$this->notice is never unset after prepare

actions/apistatusesshow.php

@@ -133,7 +133,6 @@ class ApiStatusesShowAction extends ApiPrivateAuthAction
      */
     function showNotice()
     {
-        if (!empty($this->notice)) {
         switch ($this->format) {
         case 'xml':
             $this->showSingleXmlStatus($this->notice);
@@ -149,28 +148,6 @@ class ApiStatusesShowAction extends ApiPrivateAuthAction
             // TRANS: %s is the requested output format.
             throw new Exception(sprintf(_("Unsupported format: %s."), $this->format));
         }
-        } else {
-            // XXX: Twitter just sets a 404 header and doens't bother
-            // to return an err msg
-
-            $deleted = Deleted_notice::getKV($this->notice_id);
-
-            if (!empty($deleted)) {
-                $this->clientError(
-                    // TRANS: Client error displayed requesting a deleted status.
-                    _('Status deleted.'),
-                    410,
-                    $this->format
-                );
-            } else {
-                $this->clientError(
-                    // TRANS: Client error displayed requesting a status with an invalid ID.
-                    _('No status with that ID found.'),
-                    404,
-                    $this->format
-                );
-            }
-        }
     }
 
     /**
@@ -193,13 +170,9 @@ class ApiStatusesShowAction extends ApiPrivateAuthAction
      */
     function lastModified()
     {
-        if (!empty($this->notice)) {
         return strtotime($this->notice->created);
     }
 
-        return null;
-    }
-
     /**
      * An entity tag for this notice
      *
@@ -210,8 +183,6 @@ class ApiStatusesShowAction extends ApiPrivateAuthAction
      */
     function etag()
     {
-        if (!empty($this->notice)) {
-
         return '"' . implode(
             ':',
             array($this->arg('action'),
@@ -223,9 +194,6 @@ class ApiStatusesShowAction extends ApiPrivateAuthAction
         . '"';
     }
 
-        return null;
-    }
-
     function deleteNotice()
     {
         if ($this->format != 'atom') {