An aboriginal healing circle has ended with Donald Marshall Jr. and the man he was initially charged with trying to kill agreeing to do community service.

Marshall, the Mi'kmaq man at the centre of two high-profile legal cases, was accused of trying to run over Duncan Gould with his car last New Year's Eve.

Donald Marshall Jr. was initially charged with attempted murder, but that charge was withdrawn.
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He was initially charged with attempted murder, but that charge was withdrawn. The case was moved out of the courts after the two men agreed to abide by the conditions of a healing circle.

The circle, which involves Membertou elders, took place Tuesday.

"We made amends," Marshall told reporters after the meeting in Membertou. "We have to go to work Thursday packing Christmas stuff for the community."

The matter will end in February when the healing circle organizers report their decision to the courts.

Marshall was wrongfully convicted of stabbing Sandy Seale to death in 1971. He spent 11 years in prison and was released in 1983 when his conviction was overturned. He was later fully exonerated.

In 1999, Marshall made headlines again after an aboriginal rights case in which he was involved made it to the Supreme Court of Canada. The court's landmark ruling reaffirmed the treaty right of Mi'kmaq to fish for a moderate livelihood.