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BY LEO STANDORA
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Florida prosecutors dropped a drunken-driving charge against fallen baseball star Dwight Gooden yesterday, but slapped him with a new count of reckless driving.
The legal maneuvering came as Gooden pleaded not guilty to fleeing a cop who stopped his car in Florida last month because the officer thought the former Mets and Yankees star was intoxicated.
The 41-year-old former Cy Young winner didn't appear for his arraignment and had his lawyer read his plea into the court record."