Florida State House of Representatives
Meek served in the Florida House of Representatives from 1995 to 1998. While in the Florida House, Meek worked the Pitts and Lee case with Republicans in order to provide compensation for two African-Americans who had been falsely convicted for murder 35 years earlier.
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