For boring reasons sometimes people tack on placeholders in case more defendants are identified later.

Pre-allocating memory so you can use it later instead of doing it in the render (justice) loop and slowing that down. Good call.

"John/Jane Doe" is a common placeholder name, it's twenty people they couldn't identify.

Roe is less common, but not unusual. Most memorably, "Roe" in Roe v. Wade was a pseudonym for the plaintiff who was called "Jane Roe" to protect her privacy. I don't know the mechanism, but I assume the judge in such cases has the real identity of a pseudonymous plaintiff to make sure a real party has brought the case.

Ah! I read it as "DOES" as in 'do', not "more than one DOE"

Thanks for clearing that up