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

Mr. Oberlander responded by stating that the judge had "just put into the record that I am Richard Roe," but quickly added that the fact was hardly a secret.

From New York Times • Aug. 22, 2012

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

It must be attacked en ricochet, and not directly; a hint, I suppose, they stole from our common law, where they fire into you, by pretending to assail John Doe or Richard Roe.

From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I by Lever, Charles James