Blind Judge Calls Football Games

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Channel: LOCAL 12 · 2013 · News & Politics

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JEFFERSON COUNTY, Ky (WKRC) -- A Kentucky judge is proving that not only is justice blind but it can also call football games.Judge David Holton spends his days as a judge in western Kentucky but on Friday nights he calls high school football games as a public address announcer.Holton is the first and currently only blind judge in Kentucky.He is also likely the state's only blind PA announcer too.Friend and attorney Thomas Patteson stays by his side to feed him the information.Holton says most of the time the crowd below has no idea he has no view of the game.

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