A state senator has filed a formal complaint against the Sarpy County judge who decided to leave a man with mental problems handcuffed in the lobby of a state psychiatric hospital.

Sen. Ernie Chambers of Omaha called the incident cruel and unethical and filed his complaint Monday against Sarpy County District Judge Robert Wester with the state's Judicial Qualifications Commission.

On Thursday, Wester deemed the man mentally incompetent to stand trial, so Sarpy County deputies took him to the Lincoln Regional Center.

But hospital officials told the deputies there was no room for the man.

A sheriff's lieutenant said the judge told him that the deputies had to leave the man there even if the hospital refused to admit him