The final stage of jury selection for the racketeering and sex trafficking trial of hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs was set to occur three days before opening statements.

Sean “Diddy” Combs arrived to court on Friday, when a jury of 12 New Yorkers is due to be chosen in the hip-hop mogul's racketeering and sex trafficking trial. The rapper has pleaded not guilty to one count of racketeering conspiracy,

The final stage of jury selection will resume on Friday morning at 9 a.m., when each legal team will exercise their peremptory strikes on jurors to whittle down the 45 members of the pool to 12 jurors and six alternates who will sit for the estimated eight weeks of the trial.