The phone-hacking trial jury has failed to reach verdicts on remaining charges against former tabloid editor Andy Coulson and journalist Clive Goodman.
Coulson was convicted on Tuesday of conspiracy to hack phones. Goodman had pleaded guilty in 2006 over hacking.
They were also accused of conspiracy to commit misconduct in public office.
The judge said he had been "very concerned" by comments by the prime minister, who had apologised on Tuesday for employing Coulson in No 10.
On Wednesday, Coulson's lawyer criticised David Cameron's "ill-advised and premature intervention" in the case.
Discharging the jury from the Old Bailey, Mr Justice Saunders said a decision on any retrial would be made on Monday.
Five people have pleaded guilty in the case, while former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks and her husband Charlie were among the remaining defendants cleared on Tuesday.
'Warnings ignored'Mr Cameron faced criticism for his decision to take Coulson with him into Downing Street from Labour leader Ed Miliband at Prime Minister's Questions earlier.
But he insisted it had been the civil service's role to vet the appointment and that he had been exonerated by a public inquiry following the hacking scandal.
"Every single one of these issues was dealt with exhaustively by the Leveson Inquiry," the prime minster told MPs.
"He looked into all of these questions about the warnings I was given and the response I gave and he made no criticism of my conduct."
However Mr Miliband listed a string of allegations about the PM's role: "When it came to Andy Coulson, you just didn't want to know the evidence.
"This is about your character, your judgement and the warnings you ignored."
Mr Cameron appointed Coulson as his official spokesman after becoming prime minister in 2010, only for the former News of the World editor to resign in 2011 amid growing allegations about phone hacking at the paper.
Goodman - the News of the World's former royal editor - and private investigator Glenn Mulcaire have already served jail terms.
In 2007 they were convicted after hacking the phones of members of the royal household.
Royals, celebrities and victims of crime had their phones hacked by the now-defunct tabloid, which closed in July 2011 after revelations about murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler's voicemails being accessed came to light.
Police say thousands of people's phones were targeted.
Coulson now faces a maximum of two years in prison for hacking.
He and Ms Brooks had an on-off affair for at least six years from the late 1990s, details of which were revealed during the trial.
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