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Brent Whiting
District Judge · Idaho District Court, Judicial District 3
Biography
Professional career
- In October 2026, Judge Whiting rejected a defense motion to dismiss the case of Stacey Wondra, charged with first-degree murder, second-degree kidnapping, and destruction of evidence in the 2021 disappearance of five-year-old Michael “Monkey” Vaughan
- Judge Brent L. Whiting is a judge of the 3rd Judicial District Court of Idaho, appointed by Governor Brad Little on December 28, 2021 to fill a vacancy created by the retirement of Judge George Southworth
- Judicial law clerk to Judge Stephen S. Trott, Ninth Circuit, until 2003
- Attorney, Racine Olson Nye Budge & Bailey, from 2003
- Appointed district judge by Gov
Education
- University of Montana Alexander Blewett III School of Law — J.D. (2002)
- in political science, Idaho State University — B.A. (1997)
Additional information
- Brad Little, December 28, 2021, succeeding George Southworth
- The judge found these statements could support participation in the kidnapping while it was underway, satisfying the felony-murder element
Applicable Court Rules & Procedures
Exhibits
Statewide
Idaho's statewide electronic-filing rule generally requires text-searchable PDF or PDF/A submissions and a 50 MB per-document limit; scanned-image attachments and exhibits may use standard PDF and are not rejected for the usual text-searchability format requirement.
A document ... submitted electronically to the court must be in the form of a text-searchable Portable Document Format (PDF) or a text-searchable Portable Document Format/A (PDF/A) file ... and not exceed 50 megabytes. A document that is an attachment or exhibit ... may be in standard PDF format and need not be text searchable.Idaho Rules for Electronic Filing and Service, Rule 6 ↗
Published courtroom rules
Shared court rules
Idaho Rules for Electronic Filing and Service, Rule 6
Idaho District Court, Judicial District 3
Scope is limited to the court class in the source claim. Shared court context only; case-type restrictions, exceptions, later amendments and case orders apply. This is not a personal preference or a complete rules inventory.
Official source ↗ · Collected 2026-07-27Sources
Identity source checked July 27, 2026.
Biography sources checked July 27, 2026.
Idaho Supreme Court official judicial roster
Identity source · HTML · Source checked July 27, 2026
View Idaho Supreme Court official judicial roster ↗Idaho Rules for Electronic Filing and Service, Rule 6
Statewide source · HTML · Source checked July 27, 2026
View Idaho Rules for Electronic Filing and Service, Rule 6 ↗current_membership
Current Membership source · HTML · Source checked October 4, 2026
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