The trial should remain on schedule after the defense suggested that the final 12 jurors and six alternates could ask to be excused after spending a weekend contemplating a role in a major celebrity's fate.

Combs, who is facing sex trafficking and racketeering charges, appeared in Manhattan federal court in front of U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian on Friday, April 18. Subramanian ruled the trial will not be delayed, CNN and Reuters reported.

A federal judge in New York says the sex trafficking trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs will proceed as scheduled in early May despite his lawyer's claims that they need an extra two months to prepare.