Strange continue keyword usage

Question

I'm reviewing some Java code, and have run into this kind of thing a second time now.

while (true)
  try
  {
    //some simple statements
    continue;
    try {
      Thread.sleep(1000L);
    }
    catch (InterruptedException e)
    {
      SamsetUtils.LogError(this.logger, e.getMessage() + ".29");
    }
    if (!SamsetUtils.BlockingDistributorThread)
    {
      //some very long and critical code here
    }
  }
  //several catch blocks follow

To my understanding, the critical code would always be omitted, since the continue statement would always be executed and would always start another iteration immediately. First I marked a similar situation as a bug, but this time it raised my suspicions, because it's all part of supposedly working code that's being used commercially. Does this snippet work somehow, in a way I'm not aware of?

Similar situation here:

 while (true)
  try {
    //some simple statements

    if (notifications != null) {
      int i = 0; continue;

      this.recivedNotifies.add(notifications[i].getName());

      i++; if (i >= notifications.length)
      {
        makeCallBack();
      }
    } else {
      Thread.sleep(2000L);
    }
  }
  catch (Exception e) {
    //catch statements
  }

Answer 1

Those snippets come from decompiled code, and it was indeed the decompiler getting confused. I checked it with another one and it produced different, although also crazy, results. Thanks for all the help.