no the phrasing is wrong lying is the present participle of to lie it's one of the painful ones consistently gotten wrong in english if she was currently continuing to lie to a jury then it can be used but the lie being described is in the past hence she has lied not she was lying i don't see these as nitpicks either many of the proposed phrase shortenings are due to you replaced past with present tense on top of that i think we should aim for high quality writing now i agree that some of the content for example a nearby room following her encounter with strauss kahn and had then returned to strauss kahn's room and cleaned that as well could be better phrased to be clearer and shorter but your mostly just removing material to no value leaving a lot of vagueness and some innacuracy errant chat