Richard Roe

American  

[roh] / roʊ /

noun

1. a fictitious name used in legal proceedings for a male party whose true name is not known, used especially as the second such name when two male persons are involved whose real names have not been ascertained.

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Etymology

Origin of Richard Roe

First recorded in 1865–70

Example Sentences

The four others who have sued are also seeking to retain their anonymity: John Doe, Charles Coe, Michael Moe and Richard Roe.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2021

In the final pages, Richard Roe is relieved of duty after a breakdown—Green’s rebuke to the evolving myth of the stoical “Blitz spirit”—and becomes frustrated as he struggles to recapture the experience of firefighting:

From The New Yorker • Oct. 10, 2016

Judge Glasser agreed that the connection was not a secret, adding that Mr. Oberlander and Richard Roe were "inseparable" in his mind.

From New York Times • Aug. 22, 2012

Details of the dispute between John Doe and Richard Roe were pieced together through a review of public documents, including appellate orders and a transcript of the 2010 hearings before Judge Glasser.

From New York Times • Feb. 6, 2012

The police didn’t have their names, so the warrant read for John Doe and Richard Roe.

From The Radio Boys at the Sending Station Making Good in the Wireless Room by Chapman, Allen