>Its probably a typo and could be interpreted in one of three ways.
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>If search value is boolean and pi.GetValue returns a boolean, it could be:

searchValue = searchValue == pi.GetValue(searchCriteriaViewModel);

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>Another case is that the original developer was either trying to set two variables to the same value:

searchValue = otherSearchValue = pi.GetValue(searchCriteriaViewModel);

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>Or it could be that the original developer just put searchValue in twice by accident or copying and pasting one to many times. If that method is working properly at the moment, I would assume the last scenario and remove one of the searchValue assignments.

I think most likely it's a typo. The method seems to be working fine.