Writ granted in part; otherwise denied. The district court is ordered to appoint counsel and hold a hearing at which it will determine whether relator's attorney failed to discover that one of relator's predicate convictions had cleansed under R.S. 14:98(F)(2), and if so whether that failure caused counsel to render ineffective assistance under the test set out in Hill v. Lockhart,
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