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# Matthew Bever

Idaho Magistrate Division, Judicial District 3 · Magistrate Judge

## Profile

- Court: Idaho Magistrate Division, Judicial District 3
- State: Idaho
- Role: Magistrate Judge
- Service status: active
- Last verified: 2026-07-27

## Summary

Official statewide and applicable court procedural guidance applies to this judge.

## Biography

### Professional career

- Licensed to practice law in Idaho since 2007
- Bever has been a candidate for re-election in the 2024 Idaho General Election for the Canyon County Magistrate Judge position
- Matthew R. Bever is a magistrate judge for the Canyon County Magistrate Court in Idaho, appointed in 2018 by the 3rd Judicial District Magistrates Commission
- Adjunct professor, College of Western Idaho, from 2016
- Matthew R. Bever serves as a Magistrate Judge for the Canyon County Magistrate Court within Idaho’s 3rd Judicial District, which covers Adams, Canyon, Gem, Owyhee, Payette, and Washington counties

### Education

- Regent University School of Law — J.D. (2007)
- Undergraduate degree in business, Central Washington University — 2004

### Additional information

- Appointed magistrate, Canyon County, September 2018, succeeding F. Randall Kline
- Appointed in 2018 to fill a vacancy created by the retirement of Hon. F. Randall Kline.
- Deputy prosecuting attorney, Canyon County, 11 years, including chief of the felony unit
- Before joining the judiciary, Bever was a deputy prosecuting attorney for the Canyon County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office, where he held the role of chief of the felony unit and also taught business law at the College of Western Idaho

## Before you appear

- Read the judge-specific standing order first when one is listed.
- Check the docket and case orders for requirements that supersede broader guidance.
- Confirm current remote-access and courtroom technology arrangements before the proceeding.

## Courtroom Rules

### electronic exhibit format

Scope: 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.

Evidence excerpt: 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](https://isc.idaho.gov/rules-procedure/irefs)
Source checked: 2026-07-27


## Sources

- [Official profile](https://isc.idaho.gov/about-the-courts/judicial-directory)
- [Official roster](https://isc.idaho.gov/about-the-courts/judicial-directory)
- [Idaho Supreme Court official judicial roster](https://isc.idaho.gov/about-the-courts/judicial-directory)
- [Idaho Rules for Electronic Filing and Service, Rule 6](https://isc.idaho.gov/rules-procedure/irefs)
- [biography](https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/canyon-county-deputy-prosecutor-named-magistrate-judge/article_fe16f4e2-2513-517d-82ea-62b3ad3df4ae.html)
- [current_membership](https://isc.idaho.gov/about-the-courts/judicial-directory)

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## Published courtroom rules

### Shared court rules

- [Idaho Rules for Electronic Filing and Service, Rule 6](https://knowjudges.com/courtroom-rules/national-shared-set-0c38e11cda2478da65cd7ff5) — 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](https://isc.idaho.gov/rules-procedure/irefs). Collected 2026-07-27.